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'H' 


New  Tork  Colonial  Tra&s. 


Number  III. 


IToijagcs  of  tije  Slabets  St.  Jofjn 
%        antr  Erms  of  Emstcrtiam. 


V  /. 


AddittGi 


TRANS  L^ 


^KlU 


"W- 


VOYAGES 


OF    THE     SLAVORS 


j$L  3ol^n  anb  SSrms  of  ^msf  Frbam, 

1659,  1663; 


TOGETHER    WITH 


AddittGnal  Papers  illufirative  of  the  Slave 
4|         Trade  under  the  Dutch. 

TOANSLATED  FROM  THE  ORIGINAL  MANUSCRIPTS, 

WITH    AN 

By  E.  B.  O'CALLAGHAN. 


ALBANY,  N.  Y., 

J.  MUNSELL.  82  STATE  ST. 

1867. 


No,. 


Edition,  loo  Copies. 


INTRODUCTION. 


les. 


■i/j^if^^N  THE  Traa  now  pub- 
^^M.  liflied,  we  have  colleded  and 
s^  tranflated  the  Papers  in  the 
"^^^^  Secretary  of  State's  Office, 
illuftrative  of  Slavery  and  the  Slave 
Trade  under  the  Dutch.  As  the 
Documents  are  authentic,  they  fur- 
nifti  reliable  Material  for  a  Chapter 
in  the  early  Hiftory  of  our  State  at 
prefent  unwritten,  and  hitherto  but 
partially  known. 


VI 


IntroduBion. 


i  < 


mon 
3 


To  the  Dutch  undoubtedly  be- 
longs the  queftionable  Diftindtion 
of  having  introduced  Negro  Slavery 
into  the  Colonies,  now  the  United 
States  of  America.  "  About  the  laft 
Smith's  General oi  Augujl "  ( 1 6 1 9),  fays  'J olm  Rolfe, 

Hijhry  of  rir- 

^/«/d,Ed.i6z7,  the  celebrated  Hulband  Q>i  Pocahon- 

P.    126,   Riib- 

lond  Ed.,  n,(asy  writing  from  Virginia^  "came 
in  a  Dutch  man  of  warre,  that  fold 
vs  twenty  Negars."-^  Oldmixon  re- 
fers to  the  fame  Event,  but  leaves 

*  This  Event  is  generally  ftated  to  have  occurred 
in  1620;  but  a  careful  Perufal  of  Smith  fliows  that 
it  took  place  in  1619.  Mr.  Bancroft,  Ilijl.  U.  S., 
I  ft  Ed.,  I,  189,  quotes  Beverley  as  the  original 
Authority  for  this  Fa6l.  Beverley  only  copied  Capt. 
Smith,  without  acknowledging  the  Source  of  his  In- 
formation; of  which  Circumftance  Mr.  Bancroft 
docs  not  appear  to  have  been  aware. 


1 


fol 
Sli 


A  to 

■I  • 
I  It 


Introdu&ion, 


VI 1 


ibtedly  be- 
Diftindion 
^ro  Slavery 
the  United 
3ut  the  laft 
fobn  Rolfe, 
f  Pocahon- 
f'tf,  "came 
,  that  fold 
imixon  re- 
)ut  leaves 

have  occurred 

^th  fliows  that 

Iliji.  U.  S., 

the  original 

copied  Capt. 

rce  of  liis  In- 

/Ir.    Bancroft 


the  Imprefiion  that  the  Vell'el  was 

a  Merchantman.     "The  Merchant /^/v//-  /-^//'r 

in  .•imftiiJ,  KJ. 

fold  20  Negroes,  which  were  the  firft  r4«.  i  ih- 
Slaves  that  were  brought  thither  (to 
Virghiia)  from  Giiimar 

At  this  Period  a  Clafs  of  Adven- 
fturers,  called  "  Guinea  Traders," 
reforted  to  Africa;  another  Clafs, 
called  "  Virginia  Traders,"  reforted 
io  America.  One  or  other  of  thefe, 
it  is  fuppofed,  landed  the  above 
mentioned  Negroes. 

In  1 62 1,  all  the  Dutch  private 
Companies  trading  to  Africa  and 
America  were  merged  into  one  — 
the    celebrated    Weft   India  Com- 


Vlll 


IntrocIuSiion, 


pany  —  which,  by  Virtue  of  its 
Charter,  raifed  Troops,  fitted  out 
Men-of-War,  ani  made  other  Pre- 
parations for  entering  the  Field 
again fl  Spain.  This  Power  had,  at 
that  time,  the  almoll  entire  Con- 
trol of  the  Trade  of  Africa,  from 
which  Country  it  imported  into 
Brazil,  during  the  four  Years  end- 
DcUr,,janMg  1 623,  Fifteen  thoufand,  four 
,92.  '  hundred  and  thirty  Blacks,  to  work 
its  Sugar  Plantations. 

In  1623,  the  Weft  India  Com- 
pany commenced  Hoftilities,  which 
it  continued  with  confiderable  Vigor 
for  feveral   Years.     At  firft,  how- 


irtue    of    its 
>s,  fitted  out 
le  other  Pre- 
:    the    Field 
ower  had,  at 
entire  Con- 
ifrica,  from 
ported    into 
Years  end- 
ufand,  four 
ks,  to  work 

ndia  Com- 
ities, which 
rable  Vigor 
firft,  how- 


hitroduSiion, 


IX 


liver,  it  placed  no  Value  on  the 
Negroes  it  captured  from  the  Span- 
iards;  for  in  1624,  Admiral  Van 
t)ort  having  overhauled,  of}'  the 
Coaft  of  Brazil,  a  SpaniHi  Velfel 
carrying  Blacks  from  Angola  to 
Bahia,  took  the  Skipper  and  let 
the  Ship  and  Blacks  go,  **  not 
knowing,"  frankly  confelfes  De 
ijacty   "how  ufeful    and   profitable >„/,* 

;|,  had,  F. 

•fhey  could  be  to  them."  Again, 
in  1627,  the  Dutch  having  over- 
come a  Portuguefe  Ship,  coming 
rrom    Angola   to   Pernambuco  with 


•7. 


>oo  Blacks  on   board,  they  derived 
10  Advantage  from  the  Capture,  as 

B 


Ibid.,  E'.  120, 
121. 


X  lntrodiiEiio7i. 

thofe    of    Pcrnambuco    refufed    to 

ranfom  the  Negroes,  Ibme  of  whom 

were  landed   afterwards,  with    the 

Portuguefe,  at  Fayal.     And  fo  late 

as    1 63 1,    two    Ships   from   Angola 

with    850    Negroes,    having    been 

captured    off  Hifpaniola    and    Sta. 

DeUrtAh\A.,  Mcifthay   thc   Dutcli   Commanders 
p.  230, 270. 

not    knowing    what    to    do    with 

the  Blacks,  let  them  and  the  Ships 

go- 
It  will  be  feen  by  the  above 
Refumc,  that  the  Weft  India  Com- 
pany having  been  abforbed  in  its 
Operations  againft  the  Spaniards, 
did    not,   for  fome  Years    after    it 


firi 

mu 

and 

not 

in 


refiifed  to 
me  of  whom 
is,  with  the 
And  {o  late 
Tom  Angola 
laving  heen 
la  and  St  a. 
Commanders 
:o  do  with 
id  the  Ships 

the  above 
India  Com- 
»rbed   in  its 

Spaniards, 
irs    after    it 


hitrodtiElion, 


XI 


rfl:  came  into  Exigence,  place 
much  Vakie  on  the  Shive  Trade ; 
and,  as  a  Confequence,  Slavery  was 
not  greatly  foftered  or  encouraged 
in  New  Nctbcrland. 

It  was  not  until  the  Dutch  had 
reduced  Pernambiico  and  other  Parts 
of  Brazil,  and  taken  Curasao,  that 
they  began  to  derive  any  Profit 
from  the  Capture  of  Slaves.  In 
Otlobcr,  1636,  the  Souther gh  took  z). /,<w, ibid., 
a  Ship  from  Angola  with  230  Ne- 
groes, which  were  fold  fliortly 
fterwards  at  the  Reciff  for  30,000 
Guilders.  A  couple  of  Months 
Uater,  another  Lot  of  captured  Afri- 


F.  528,  529. 


Xll 


IntroduElion, 


cans,  340  in  Number,  was  fold  by 
public  Auction  at  the  fame  Place, 
and  brought  67,000  Guilders.  Be- 
tween the  Years  1623  and  1636,  the 
D« Larr,  Ibid.,  Dutch  captured  from  the  Spaniards 

App.  P.  21. 

Two  thoufandy  three  hundred  and  fifty - 
Jix  Negroes,  whofe  eftimated  Value 
was  589,000  Guilders.  Finally,  in 
1 64 1,  they  reduced  Loando  St.  Paulo 
in  Africa;  and  thus,  with  this  Slave 
Hive  on  the  one  Side,  and  Brazil 
and  Curasao  for  Slave  Markets  on 
the  other,  they  obtained  complete 
Control  of  the  Slave  Trade.  The 
Southef!  Bra-  Ships  of  the  Weft  India  Company 
now  failed  diredt  from  Holland  to 


got 
carri 

Ho\ 
ducJ 


lev( 


ton, 

r,  was  fold  by 
e  fame  Place, 
guilders.     Be- 
and  1636,  the 
the  Spaniards 
'dred  and  fifty- 
imated  Value 
Finally,  in 
2ndo  St.  Paulo 
ith  this  Slave 
,  and  Brazil 
Markets  on 
ed  complete 
>ade.     The 
ia  Company 
1  Holland  to 


IntroduElion, 


Xlll 


Angola  with  Articles  of  Commerce ; 
got  Slaves  in  Exchange,  which  they 
Oirried  to  Brazil,  and  returned  to 
Holland  with  Sugar  and  other  Pro- 
duce of  that  Country. 

We  now  propofe  to  trace  the 
Introducflion  of  Slavery  into  New 
Netherland. 

In  1625  or  1626,  fix  or  feven 
Year s  after  the  Dutch  had  difcharged 

e  fmall  Lot  of  Slaves  in  Virginia^ 
the  firft  Negroes  were  brought  to 
Manhattan.  Among  them  were 
Paul d' Angola,  Simon  Congo,  Anthony 
^ortuguefe,  'John  Francifco,  and 
even    other    Africans,    who    were 


XIV 


IntroduBion, 


probably  captured  at  Sea.  Thci 
Names  denote  the  Country  ti 
which  they  originally  belonged 
Two  Years  afterwards  three  Negn 
Women  arrived  at  New  Ainjlcrdam 
and  thefe  are  the  only  Inftance 
on  Record  of  the  Introduction  oi 
Slaves  in  New  Netherland  prior  tc 
the  Ered:ion  of  Patroonfliips  and 
Colonies  in  1629,  when  the  Well 
India  Company  publicly  promifed 
Freedom,  of     to  "  ufe  their  Endeavors  to  fupply 

1629,  Art.  30. 

the  Colonifts  with  as  many  Blacb 
as  they  conveniently  can." 

For  Caufes,  already  noted,  thefe 
"endeavors"  were  not  followed,  a^ 


hon. 

It  Sea.  Thei: 
Country  t( 
illy  belonged 
Is  three  Negn 
■^w  Atnjicrdam 
)nly  Inftancc 
itrodu(5tion  oi 
rlatid  prior  tc 
•oonfliips  and 
ben  the  Well 
icly  promised 
3rs  to  fupply 

many  BlacL 

an." 

noted,  thele 
followed,  as 


I  IntroduElion,  xv 

far  as  we  have  been  able  to  afcer- 
ttin,  by  any  immediate  Increafe  of 
Negroes  here  ;  and  it  was  not  until 
after  the  Redudion  of  Loando  that 
the  Current  of  Slavery  fet  northward 
to  any  great  Amount.-'^ 

By  an  Edi6t  ilfued  in  1645,  no  N.r.ahniai 
private  Dutch  VefTel  was  allowed 
to  trade  farther  North  than  Cape 
Blorida^  nor  on  any  Account  to  the 
P^irgi?itaSy  New  Netherlands  New 
Brance,  the  Coaft  of  Africa  or 
'Brazil.     The  Trade  in  thefe  Coun- 


*  Slavery  cxiftcd  in  the  Limits  of  the  prcfent  State 
dl'New  Jerjcy  as  early  as  1638.— A^  T.  Col.  MSS., 

i;4i. 


Vanderdonck 
Vertoogh, 


xvi  IntroduSlion, 

tries  was   wholly  monopolized  b;    this] 
the  Weft  India  Company.  broi 

In  the  Summer  of  1646,  the  fin  not 
Slave  Ship,  of  whofe  Name  we  hav 
a  Record,  arrived  in  New  Nether 
land.  She  was  called  the  Atiiandan 
This  VelTel  touched  at  Barbados 
where  "  three  Negro  Wenches 
were  fpirited  away.  The  Remain- / 
der  arrived  at  New  Amjierdam  ir,.^  'Stat< 
June,  where  "  the  Negroes  wen  )|atli 
fold  for  Pork  and  Peas.  Something  g'*^^ 
wonderful  was  to  be  performec  \^  ' 
with  them,  but  they  juft  droppec  ^^ 
through  the  Fingers."    WhatNum-     thcii 

Port  c 

her    of    Slaves    were    brought    11      ^^  ^^^ 


lonopolized  b, 
ipany. 

'  1646,  the  fin 

Name  we  hav 

1  New  Nether- 

the  Amandati 

I  at  Barbadoei 

:ro    Wenches 

The  Remain-  X 

Amjierdam  ir 

Negroes   wert 

s.    Something 

3e    performec 

'  juft  droppec 

WhatNum- 

brought    ir 


m  Introduction.  xvii 

this  Velfel,  or  whether  they  were 
brought  from  Brazil  or  Guinea^  is 
JB©t  ftated/-= 

In  ya?mary,  1648,  a  Committee 
of  the  States  General  made  a  lengthy 
Report  on  the  Affairs  of  the  Weft 
India  Company,  in  the  Courfe  of 
which  they  refer  to  the  Fad,  that 
Confequence  of  the  unfettled 
"State  of  Brazil,  "  the  Slave  Trade 
hath  long  lain  dormant  to  the 
great  Damage  of  the  Company." 
In    order    to    revive    that    Traffic, 

"*' Sugar  and  Oil  were  a  Part  of  her  Cargo;  and 
thcfc  Articles  may  fcrve  as  a  Chie  to  determine  her 
port  of  Departure.  She  undoubtedly  belonged  to, 
dr  was  chartered  by,  the  Weft  India  Company. 


xviii        hitroduElion. 
Attention    was     turned     to     M-:, 


Ncthcrland. 


N.   r.  Colonial  " 


I,  246. 


That  Country,"  fays  the  Rep 


ort, 


"  is  confidered  to  be  the  moft  fruitful 
of  all  within  your  High  Mighti- 
nelfes'  Jurifdi6tion,  and  the  bed 
adapted  to  raife  all  Sorts  of  thi^ 
Country  Produce,  fuch  as  Rye, 
Wheat,  Barley,  Peas,  Beans,  etc., 
and  Cattle ;  and  that  in  more 
Abundance  than  can  be  done  here, 
were  it  fuitably  peopled  and  culti- 
vated. The  granting  of  Freedoms 
and  Privileges,  hath  indeed  induced 
fome  Patroons  and  Colonifts  to 
undertake   Agriculture   there ;    but 


ned     to     M'« 

lys  the  Report, 
lemoft  fruitful 
iigh    Mighti- 
and    the    befl 
Sorts  of  thi.v 
Jch     as    Rye, 
.   Beans,   etc., 
iat    in     more 
)e  done  here, 
-d  and   culti- 
of  Freedoms 
ieed  induced 
Colonics    to 
there;    but 


IntroduEiion. 


XIX 


as  the  Produce  cannot  be  fold  any 
where  except  in  the  adjacent  Places 
belonging  to  the  Englirti,  who 
are  themfelves  fufficiently  fupplied, 
thofe  Planters  havc;  not  received  a 
Return  for  their  Labor  and  Outlay. 
With  a  View,  then,  to  give  greater 
Encouragement  to  Agriculture,  and 
confequently  to  Population,  we 
Ihould  conlider  it  highly  advan- 
tageous that  a  way  be  opened  to 
allow  them  to  export  their  Produce 

fven  to  Brazil^  in  their  own  Ve/Tels, 
nder  certain  Duties,  and  fubjedt  to 
the  Supervilion  both  of  the  Director 
In  New  Netherlands  and  the  Supreme 


XX 


IntroduEiion, 


^ 


Council  in  Brazil ;  and  to  trade  i 
off  there,  and  to  carry  Slaves  baci 
in  Return  ;  which  Privilege  of  lail- 
ing  with  their  own  Ships  from  Nc:. 
Netherland  to  Brazil^  fliould  ht 
exclufively  allowed  to  Patroons  aik 
Colonics,  who  promote  the  Popu- 
lation in  New  Netherland,  and  no; 
to  the  Interlopers,  who  only  earn 
Goods  to  and  fro,  without  attending 
to  Agriculture.  By  this  Means  not 
only  would  Brazil  be  fupplied  with 
Provifions  at  a  cheaper  Rate,  but 
New  Netherland  would  by  Slave 
Labor,  be  more  extenfively  culti- 
vated  than    it    has    hitherto  been, 


beca 
who 
Exp 
later 
and 
Slave 
brou 
chea 
tions 
and 
in  F 
Occa 
Unti 
to  ot 
Tl 
in    I 


ion. 


IntroduBion. 


XXI 


and  to  trade  i 
ry  Slaves  bad 
•ivilege  of  fail- 
lips  from  Nc:, 
ily  fliould  bt 
>  Patroons  aiii 
ote  the  Popii- 
'land,  and  no; 
ho  only  earn 
bout  attending 
his  Means  noi 
fupplied  with 
per  Rate,  but 
uld  by  Slave 
infively  culti- 
litherto  been, 


becaufe  the  agricultural  Laborers, 
who  are  conveyed  thither  at  great 
Expenfc  to  the  Colon ifts,  fooner  or 
later  apply  themfelves  to  Trade, 
and  negledt  Agriculture  altogether. 
Slaves,  on  the  other  Hand,  being 
brought  and  maintained  there  at  a 
cheap  Rate,  various  other  Defcrip- 
tions  of  Produce  would  be  raifed, 
Ipd  by  their  Abundance  be  reduced 
in  Price,  fo  as  to  allow,  when 
Occafion  would  offer,  of  their  ad- 
llntageous  Exportation  hither  and 
ti)  other  Parts  of  Europe." 
'  The  Trade  to  Africa  was  opened,  n.  r.  coiomai 
tn    1652,    to    the    Colonifts,    who 


xxu 


IntroduElion, 


were  permitted  to  import  Slave 
diredlly  from  that  Country,  withi 
certain  prefcribed  Limits.  No  im 
mediate  Adtion,  however,  followc 
this  PermiHion ;  and  it  was  ni 
until  the  Year  1655  that  Slave 
began  to  be  regularly  imported  int 
New  Netherland. 

It  is  to  be  borne  in  Mind,  how- 
ever, that  during  the  War  witl 
Spaitty  Privateers  fwarmed  amon^ 
the  Caribbean  IJlands  and  along  the 
Spanifh  Main.  Thefe  VefTels  oc- 
cafionally  brought  Prizes  to  Nc\. 
Amfterdatn.  After  the  Peace  be- 
tween the   United  Netherlands  and 


Sfai 
bctw 

Frai 
thcl 
a  nei 
occa 
their 
prize 
It 
were 
"oft( 
AUe^ 
of  71 

fetrNc 
grocs  V 

capture 


SI  ion. 

import  Slave 
'ountry,  witlii 
in  its.  No  im. 
I'ever,  follovvc, 
id  it  was  mv 
f5  that  Slave 
J  imported  int 

n  Mind,  how- 
he  War  witl: 
armed  amon^ 
and  along  the 
ie  VeiTels  oc- 
Vizes  to  AVu 
he  Peace  be- 
't  her  lands  and 


^  hltroduBiofi.        xxiii. 

Spaifiy  Hoftilitics  were  carried  on 
between  the  latter  Power  and 
France.  To  the  Privateers  under 
the  French  V\-\^New  Ai)ijlerdani\\\'>  x.  koj,,,!.,/ 

'^'"•'    '>   577» 

a  neutral  Port,  where  fome  of  them  578. 
occafionally  came  and   difpofed  of 
their  captured   Negroes  and  other 
prize  Goods.-"' 

It  has  been  alferted  that  Negroes  /i,„uro/rs 
were  imported  mto  New  Netberland  n,  303. 
"often  diredly  from  Guinea''    This 
Allegation  is  bafed  on  the  Defpatch 
of  7th    Aprils    1648,    and    on    the 

*  In  1642,  the  Privateer  La  Garce  brought  in  a 
few  Negroes,  and  in  1652  a  Lot  oi  Forty-four  Ne- 
groes were  brought  in  by  another  Privateer  who  had 
captured  tlicni  froni  a  Spaniard. 


-  -«-44'..  UK^-<a.v« 


Vf", 


1      I 


xxiv         IntroduSltbn, 

mere  Draft  of  a  Contract  in  166 
{Infra,  P.  loi,  169).  But  there  i 
no  Evidence  that  any  Action  fol 
lowed  the  Permiflion  of  1648,  an 
the  Remonftrance  [Infrdy  P.  171 
proves  that  the  Contrail  not  onl 
had  never  been  executed,  but  thu 
the  Parties  dechned  executing  ii 
The  Records  contain  Inftances  c: 
the  Arrival  of  only  two  Vell'd 
at  New  Ainjlerdam  "  dired:ly  fron 
Guitiea''  with  Slaves.  Thefe  wen 
the  Wittepacrt  and  Gideon.  Al 
other  Importations  of  that  Charade: 
were  from  Ciirai^^ao,  except  perhap 
thofe  of  the  Amandare,  which  nioi; 


ontrad  in  i66: 
).     But  there  i 
iny  Ad:ion  fol 
)n  of  1648,  ail. 
Infra,  P.  171 
ntrad  not  onl 
cuted,  but  thi 
i  executing  ii 
in  Inftances  c 
ly    two    Vellel 
"  diredly  fro:] 
!.     Thefe  wen 
Gideon.      Al 
f  that  Charade: 
except  perhap 
^/,  which  mol: 


IntroduEiion,  xxv 

probably  were  brought  from  Bra- 
zil. 

The  Ventures  and  VelTels  in 
this  nefarious  Commerce,  belonged 
cither  to  private  Parties  in  Holland, 
or  to  the  Weft  India  Company. 
"We  have  refolved,"  write  the  Di- 
rectors at  Amjlerdam  in  1661,  "  not 
only  that  Slaves  fhall  be  kept  in 
Mew  Netherlands  as  we  have  here- 
tofore ordered,  but  that  they  (liall 
flioreover  be  exported  to  the  Englifli 
$iid  other  Neighbours."  The  Spirit 
ctf  Avarice  and  Greed  deadened 
^onfcience  and  fmothered  all  Feel- 
Ibg  of  Humanity ;   and  "  the  Pro- 

D 


•'i^J 


xxvi         IntrodiiEiion, 

motion  of  Agriculture,  Trade,  an 
Population  "  was  the  thin  Coverin. 
which  glolfed  over  the  Infamy  ( 
the  Trade. 


In  November   1661,  the  C 


ity 


New  j4mjlerdam  became  the  Owne 

of  three  Negroes,  which  it  obtainec 

as  a  Prefent  from  the  Dired:or  anc 

Bancrofcs  u.  Council.     In    1664,   "the   City  0; 

.v.,  ift  Ed.,  II,  17. 

303.  Amjierdam  did   not    blufli  to  ovvr, 

Shares  in  a  Slave  Ship,  to  advance 
Money  for  the  Outfits,  and  to  par- 
ticipate in  the  Returns."  But  to  the 
Credit  of  New  Netherlands  it  is  to 
be  recorded  that  no  Ship  nor  Mer- 
chant  belonging    to    that   Colony, 


had! 
can 
it  is  I 
fier. 
Proj 
of  tl 


to  t 

no 

««is 

now 

Def 

ui 

thoi 

for 

wil 


Bion. 

lire,  Trade,  an 

e  thin  Coverin, 

the  Infamy  o 

»i,  the  City  o 

ame  the  Owne 

lich  it  obtainec 

e  Dire(5lor  aiic 

"the   Cityoi 

blufli   to   owr 

'ip,  to  advance 

ts,  and  to  par- 

^."     But  to  the 

erland,  it  is  tc 

>hip  nor  Mer- 

that   Colony, 


IntroduBion.       xxvii 

had  ever  been  engaged  in  the  Afri- 
can Slave  Trade.  An  Effort  had, 
it  is  true,  been  made  in  New  Am- 
fierdam  to  embark  in  it,  but  the 
Project,  fortunately  for  the  Honor 
of  the  Country,  fell  through. 

**  Of  a  dired:  Voyage  from  Guinea  mjhry  u.  s., 

31I  Edition,  ni, 

to  the  Coart:  of  the  United  States  ^^^s- 
no  Journal,"  fays  Mr.  Bancroft, 
"is  known  to  exift."  The  Papers 
now  publiflied  will  fupply  this 
Defedt  in  fome  Degree;  and  the 
J|)urnal  of  the  Slaver  St.  Johi, 
though  that  VefTel  was  not  deftined 
for  the  Coaft  of  North  America, 
yrill    give    fome    Inlight     to    the 


1  !'i 


xxviii      IntroduElion. 

Horrors  of  the  Middle  Paflagt 
One  himdred  and  ninety -Jive  huma: 
Beings  were  crammed  into  tht 
Hold  of  that  VelTel.  Bad  Food 
fliort  Allowance,  Want  of  Water 
foul  Air,  and  Bloody  Flux,  wen 
the  Attendants  on  the  Paflage  ;  anc 
as  a  Confequence,^y^_yy^'^  per  cent 
of  the  wretched  Beings  perifliec 
on  the  Voyage.  Of  the  Balance, 
only  one  Negro  eventually  accrued 
to  the  Benefit  of  the  Dutch  ;  for, 
as  a  retributive  Fate  willed  it,  a  Pri- 
vateer, or  Pirate,  fwooped  down  in 
the  Vicinity  of  Curasao,  plundered 
every   thing,    and   carried    off  the 


furv 
Ma 
\ 
Slav 
Th 
and 
on 
ove 
vat( 
Ifla 

j' 

Wh 
to 
riu 
the 


/[iddle    Paliage 
nety-five  huniar 
med    into    tht 
2I.     Bad   Food 
/"ant  of  Water 
dy  Flux,  weit 
ic  PalTage ;   anc 
fty-Jix  per  ceiii 
eings    periflied 
f  the  Balance, 
itually  accrued 
e  Dutch  ;  for, 
billed  it,  a  Pri- 
)oped  down  in 
^ao,  plundered 
Tried    off  the 


IntroduElion,        xxix 

furviving    Negroes    "towards    the 
Main." 

No  better  Fortune  awaited  the 
Slaver,  ^he  Arms  of  Amfierdam. 
This  VelTel  brought  One  hundred 
and  one  Slaves  from  Angola,  but 
on  her  Voyage  to  Curacao,  was 
overhauled  by  fome  Englifli  Pri- 
vateers among  the  Weft  India 
Iflands,  captured  and  carried  into 
Virginia. 

i  Curasao  was,  under  the  Dutch, 
what  Barbadoes  was  fubfequently 
to  the  Englifh  —  the  Slave  Empo- 
rium to  which  Guineamen  brought 
dieir  Cargoes  of  human  Flefh,  to 


I       ( 


XXX  IntroJu&. 


1071. 


be  tlicnce  dirtrilnitcd  tlirougliou 
this  Continent.  And  in  tlie  lol. 
lowing  Pages,  the  Reader  will  tiin 
ample  Infbiination  regarding  tlu 
ac^Hve  Trade  in  Slaves,  which  \v;i 
carried  on  between  that  Ulaiul, 
New  Netherlands  and  the  Spanilli 
Poilellions  on  the  Main  previous  to  ^^ 
1665.  - 


-^'-^tBCtnicaarts?:  t-:'^ti-\;-:^  ■e«haifi!kE3B»Aai^rie^itaja<a.gftii. 


&ion, 

ted  througlioi, 
"ti  in  the  lol. 
leader  will  I'm, 
regarding  tin 
''es,  which  w-\ 
^  that  Illaml, 
^  tlie  Spani/I, 
lin  previous  to 


JO  U  R  N  A  LS 


OK     THK 


U0|?agrj5  of  t1)c  Sialirr^  St.  5ioi)n 
anu  iclvms  of  iclm^tcttiam. 


r 


^^^^! 

i 

l! 

i 
I 

i 

1 

,1 
>> 

i. 

1   .   '< 

1 

1 

i 

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1 
1 

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SL 


red 
pro( 


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Hjf 


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JOURNAI 


OK   rnK 


SLAVER  St.  JOHN. 


E  Weighed  anchor,  by   1659. 
order    ot    the    Hon""  w.^,.^ 
..     Director,   yohan   Valcken- 
burch^  and  the  Hon^''"^  Di- 
rector ycijper  van  Heujfen^  to 
roceed   on  our  Voyage  from 
^mi?ia  to  Rio  Reael^  to  trade 
f6r  Slaves  for  the  Hon^'^  Com- 
pany. 
•^ .;:  A 


:M 


I   III 


17- 


(    2     ) 

»659-  Saturday.  Arrived  with  on 
*  fhip  before  Arday  to  take  oi 
board  the  Surgeon's  mate  aiii 
a  Supply  of  Tamarinds  for  thi 
Slaves ;  failed  again  next  da 
on  our  Voyage  to  Rio  Reael, 

Arrived  at  Rio  Reael  ir 
front  of  a  village  called  Ban 
where  we  found  the  Compa- 
ny's Yacht,  named  the  React 
which  was  fent  out  to  affift  ih 
to  trade  for  Slaves. 

Nothing  was  done  except 
to  trade  for  Slaves. 

One  of  our  feamen   died; 
his  name  was  Claes  van  Die- 
men  y  of  Durgerdafn, 
22.       Again  weighed  Anchor  and 


April. 


May  6. 


an( 
for  I 
for 
foo 
not 
Rec 
] 


^^^f 


) 

•ived  with  on 
3",  to  take  or 
>n's  mate  aiii 
arinds  for  tlii 
ain  next  da 
3  Rio  Reael. 
lio  Reael  ir 
called  Ban 
the  Compa 
:d  the  Peaa 
Jt  to  affift  Hi 
s. 

done  except 


>. 


amen   died; 
les  van  Die 

Anchor  and 


(3  ) 

ran  out  of  Rio  Reael  accom-  1659. 
panicd  by  the  Yacht  Peace ;  J^^ 
purchafcd  there  ^wo  himdred 
and  fiineteen  head  of  Slaves, 
men,  women,  boys  and  girls, 
and  proceeded  on  our  courfe 
for  the  High  land  of  Ambofuis^ 
for  the  purpofe  of  procuring 
food  there  for  the  Slaves,  as 
nothing  was  to  be  had  at  Rio 
Reael. 

Monday.  Arrived  under  the  26. 
High  land  of  Ambojius  to  look 
tthere  ior  Vidtuals  for  the  Slaves, 
and  fpent  feven  days  there, 
but  with  difficulty  obtained 
enough  for  the  daily  con- 
fumption  of  the  Slaves,  fo  that 


'I 


(  I 


(+     ) 


i 


1659.  we    rcfolvcd    to    run    to    R: 
^^.^^^  Ca7?tmerones  to  fee  if  any  fooi 
could   be    had   there    for    thi 
Shives. 
June  5.      Thiirfday.     Arrived   at  thi 
Rio  Commerones  and  the  Yaclr 
Peace  went  up  to  look  for  pro- 
vifions   for  the    Slaves.      Thi 
day  died  our  cooper,  namcG 
Peter  Claejfen^  of  Amjlerdam, 
29.        Sunday.   Again  refolved  to 
proceed  on  our  Voyage,  as  but 
little  food  was  to  be  had  for 
the  Slaves  in  confequence  of 
the    great    Rains    which    fell 
every  day,  and   becaufe  many 
of  the    Slaves  were   fufTering 
from  the  Bloody  Flux  in  con- 


Ill 


fee 

vii 

at 

wei 

wh< 

aen 
hun 
con 
Om 
fix 
whi 
fign 
Yac 
an 
for, 

Con 


) 


run  to  Ri 
ic  if  any  foo^ 
here   for    tk 

•rived  at  tlii 
nd  the  Yacli; 
look  for  pro- 
Jlaves.  Thi; 
oper,  namcG 

Amjlerdani 
1  refolved  to 
oyage,  as  but 
)  be  had  for 
ifequence  ot 

which  fell 
xaufe  inanv 
-re  fiiffering 
^lux  in  con- 


{  5  ) 

fequence    of    the    bad    pro-  1659. 
vinons  we  were  fupplied  with  ,£^J^ 
at  El  Mhia^   aniongft    which 
were  feveral  barrels  of  Groats, 
wholly  unfit  for  life. 

We  then  turned  ovxt  to  Adri- 
aen  Biaes^  the  Skipper,  0?ie 
hundred  and  n'mety  five  Slaves, 
confifting  of  Eighty  one  Men, 
One  hiifidred  and  jive  Women, 
fix  boys  and  three  girls  for 
which  Bills  of  lading  were 
figned  and  fent,  one  by  the 
Yacht  Peace  to  El  Mina  with 
an  account  of,  and  receipts 
for,  remaining  Merchandize. 

Arrived  at  Cabo  de  Loop  de]u\y2s. 
ConfalvQ  for  wood  and  water. 


•liil 


^:l» 


(6  ) 


1 1 


1659. 

July  27 


II. 


Our  Surgeon,  named  Maru 
de  Lanoy^  died  of  the  Blood 
Flux. 
Aug.  10.  Arrived  the  Company's  Shi 
Raven  from  Cajlle  St.  Geor. 
d^el  Mina^  homeward  bound, 
Again  refolved  to  purfii 
our  Voyage  tow  rds  the  Iflan 
of  Anneho^  in  order  to  pur 
chafe  there  Supplies  for  th 
Slaves.  We  have  lain  Sixi 
days  at  Caho  de  Loop  haulim 
wood  and  water.  Among  th 
Water  barrels,  forty  were  take: 
to  pieces  to  be  refitted,  as  on 
Cooper  died  at  Rio  Camnu 
rones^  and  we  had  no  other  per 
fon  capable  of  repairing  them 


I 
nebi 
hun 
Bea 
Jam 
On 
ftor 

1 
cut< 
of( 

r 

Shii 
tor 
and 
oth( 
iflie 
mai 
leal 


) 

lamed  Marti 
)f  the  Blood 

:)mpany's  Shi 
Jle  St,  Geor': 
ward  bound, 
^d  to  purfi! 
.rds  the  Iflan 
)rder  to  pur 
)plies  for  tl 
t^e  Iain  ^^7 
Loop  hauliiii 
Among  th; 
ty  were  take; 
^fitted,  as  oil 
Rio  Camnu 
no  other  per 
pairing  them 


Arrived  at  the  Ifland  An-  1659. 
nebo  where  we  piirchafed  One  w^] — ' 
hundred  half  tierces  of  little 
Beans,  twelve  Hogs,  y?i;^  thou- 
fand  Cocoa  nuts,  jive  thoujand 
Oranges,  befides  fome  other 
ftores. 

Again  hoifted  Sail  to  profe-  17. 
cute  our  Voyage  to  the  Ifland 
of  Curacao, 

The  Skipper  called  the  Sept.  21. 
Ships  officers  aft,  and  refolved 
to  run  for  the  Ifland  of  'Tobago 
and  to  procure  Water  there ; 
otherwife  we  fliould  have  per- 
iflied  for  want  of  water,  as 
many  of  our  Water  cafks  had 
leaked  dry. 


i:i;! 


m 


f 


M! 


(  8  ) 

1659.       Friday.  Arrived  at  the  Iflan 
V — J — '  o(  Tobago  and  fhipped  Watt 
there,     alfo    purchafed     foni 
Bread,  as  our  hands  had   ha 
no  ration  for  three  weeks. 
27.       Again  fet  fail  on  our  Voyag 
to  the  Ifland  of  Curacao^  a 
before. 
Nov.  2.       Loft  our  fhip  on  the  Rift 
of  Rocus^  and  all  hands  im 
mediately  took  to  the  Boat,  a 
there  was  no  profped:  of  fa  vine 
the  Slaves,  for  we  muft  aban- 
don the  Ship  in  confequena 
of  the  heavy  Surf. 
4.       Arrived  with  the  Boat  at  tht 
Ifland  of  Curacao  ;  the  Hon*^' 
Governor    Beck    ordered    tw( 


bo£ 
vat 


t.' 


) 

^d  at  the  Man 
dipped  Watt 
■chafed  foni 
mds  had  ha 
ee  weeks, 
m  our  Voyae 
Curacao^  a 

on  the  Rift 
1  hands  im. 
>  the  Boat,  a 
3ed:  of  fa  vine 
^  miift  aban- 
confequenct 

• 

ie  Boat  at  the 
;  the  Hon^' 
)rdered    twc 


(  9  ) 

floops   to  take  the  Slaves  off  1659. 
the  wreck,  one  of  which  floops 
with     eighty  four    flaves    on 
board,  was  captured  by  a  Pri- 
vateer. 


i    ! 


B 


I  ill 


it'l 

l:,    ;    I 


\  t 


(   10  ) 

LIST  OF  THE  SLAVES 

W^o  died  on  board    the    Six 
St.  John /rom  30^^'-'  yu^2e  i 
29^^    OElober    in    the    Tea 
1659. 


1659.  ; 

M'«. 

lFo7neti. 

Childrr 

June  30 
July     I 

3 

2 

1 

I 

3 

I 

5\ 
6 

2 

I 

I 

7 
8 

I 

2 

I 

9 

0 

10  , 

2 

12  ! 

I 

13 

2 

I 

H 

I 

i6< 


(  "  ) 


T7     OT     A 

▼  Tr\  ,. 

1659. 

Men. 

1 

!  JVomen.    Children. 

i 

t  SLAvjij) 

T        1                 /" 

! 

July  16 

3 

2 

trc/    the    S/j: 

17 
18 

2 
3 

I 

30^^-'  yup2e  I 

19 

I 

1    3 

in    the    Te& 

20 

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Wo7nen.  I  Childn 


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(  13  ) 

On  the  jirjl  of  November, 
two  hours  before  day,  have  we 
loft  the  Ship  St,  johtiy  upon 
the  Reef  of  Rocus  and  fled 
with  the  Boat  to  the  Ifland  of 
Curaqao^  and  left  in  the  Ship 
eighty  jive  Slaves,  including 
Men,  Women,  Boys  and  Girls, 
and  arrived  on  the  fourth  of 
this  inftant  at  Curaqao, 


1659. 

Nov.  I. 


I 
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2 


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I  'li' 


'vi 


(   H   ) 


INFORMATION 

TakeJt  by  Order  of  the  Hor. 
.  DireEior  Matthias  Beck  / 
fpe&mg  the  Capture  of  t 
Companys  Negroes  aha) 
cloned  on  board  the  Ship  ^ 
John  on  the  Ijland  g/'Rocii 
and  of  the  Company  s  Sk 
which  was  fen t  to  fave  tk 
by  the  Hon^^^  DireEior  \ 
Beck  aforefaid, 

APPEARED  Jan  vc. 
Gae/en  who  was  fent  t 
the  Hon.  Director  in  the  Con. 
pany's  Sloop,  with  the  Skippt 
Hans  Marcujfen  Stuyve^  to  ai 


in  i 

Slav 

the 

and 

the 

of> 

cam 

day 

the) 

fhor 

Priv 

Jan 

Den 

cam 

wea 

com 

thre 

not 


•  11 


-^ 


( 15 ) 


ATION 

•  of  the  Hor. 
thias  Beck  ; 
Capture  of  t 
Tegroes  ahai 
'd  the  Ship  S 
la?jd  of  ^iKw 
iinpanfs  Sk 
t  to  fave  the 
DireSior  \ 
d. 


b 


fan  vli 
no  was  fent  t 
1*  in  the  Con 
h  the  Skippt 
Stujve,  to  ai 


in  faving  the  aforementioned 
Slaves,  and  having  failed  with 
the  Skipper  of  the  loil  Ship 
and  fonie  of  his  Crew,  from 
the  Port  here  on  the  Scvep/th 
of  Novx-mber  towards  evening, 
came  on  the  foHowing  Satur- 
day in  light  of  Bo?2aire.  When 
they  were  running  towards  the 
fhore,  they  met  an  Englifh 
Privateer  or  Rover  whereof 
yan  Piete?fe?i^  a  native  of 
Denmark,  was  Captain,  who 
came  off  the  land  and  had  the 
weather-gage  of  them,  and 
commanded  them  to  ftrike, 
threatening  to  fire  if  they  did 
not  obey.     And  this  Deponent 


.1 1; 


(  i6  ) 

coming  on  board  the  aforcfa 
Privateer,  was  afked,  WheiK 
came  he  and  Whither  was  1 
bound?     He  anfwered,   fro 
Curaqao  and  was   bound  f 
Bonaire,       Whereupon,     tl 
Captain  of  the  Privateer  afkci 
What  bulinefs  had  he  then 
Thereupon,     Deponent     ai 
fwered,      To    look     up    tf 
Company's  People.    He,  thtr 
faid,    I   am    going    with  n, 
Ship  and  remain  you  here  c 
board  and  let  the  Veffel  go  oi 
Which  they  did  and  came  \ 
Bonaire,      Being  in  the  Roac 
ftead  with  the  aforefaid  VciTi 
on  board  of  which  were  5  or 


rem 

that 

Th( 

to 

the 

the 

Ski 

No 


5 ) 

d  the  aforc|;i 
ifked,  When, 
/hither  was  1 
tifwered,  fro 
^as  bound  i 
ereupon,  tl 
Vivateer  afka 
had  he  then 
eponent  ai 
ook  up  tf 
►le.  He,  thcr 
ing  with  ni 
1  you  here  o 
^  Veffel  go  01 
and  came  i 
in  the  Roac 
3refaid  Vefli 
h  were  5  or 


■-  i'-**l^ 


{   '7  ) 


of  the  Privateer's  crew,  one 
of  the  men  of  the  wrecked 
Ship  called  out  from  the  ihore 
to  thofe  of  the  Veifel,  as  the 
Deponent  hath  afterwards  un- 
derftood.  Did  you  bring  along 
Skipper  B/aes  —  to  wit,  the 
Skipper  of  the  wrecked  Ship  — 
and  have  you  been  to  Rocus 
to  fave  the  Negroes,  who 
remained  on  board  the  Ship 
that  lay  ftranded  there?  or, 
They  ought  firft  to  go  thither 
to  fave  them.  Whereupon 
the  Privateers,  who  were  in 
the  bark,  faid,  addrefling  the 
Skipper  of  the  wrecked  Ship, 
Now,  it   is   enough   that   we 


(  '8  ) 

know  that  you  arc  the  Skipp 
of  the   wrecked     Ship ;    ai 
about    two  hours   aftcrwarc 
the    Privateer  came   with  1 
Ship,  named  the  Cajilefriga. 
carrying  yb//r  guns  and  abo 
thirty  men,  into  the  Roadik; 
where  the  Veflel  lay  at  anchc 
Then  his   Fellows   who  wt: 
on  board  the  Company's  ba; 
or  Vefl'el,  called  out;  Captai: 
We  have  a  good  Prize  —  mci 
tioning   the  Ship  wrecked 
Rocus  —  and    having     berate 
the  Deponent  for  not  havir 
told  him  of  what  had  occurm 
was    anfwered,    He   was    \\ 
bound  to  do  fo ;  and  at  tf 


fair 
teft 

go 
pro 

bee 

the; 

the 

for< 

Sur 

to 

wil 

vate 

a    \ 
Fire 

the 

( 

foil 

faicJ 


i ) 

irc  the  Skip 
d     Ship ;    ar 
irs   aftcrwarc 
ame   with  I 
t  Cajllefrigu, 
ins  and  abo 
the  Roadife 
I  lay  at  ancho 
ws   who  wc: 
Dmpany's  ba: 
out;  Captai; 
Prize  -—  mei 
p  wrecked  : 
ving     berate 
:>r  not  havir 
had  occiirm 
He   was    m 
;  and  at  tt 


(   19  ) 

fame  time  reqiicfted  and  pro- 
tefted  that  he  flioiild  let  him 
go  in  order  that  he  may 
profeciite  the  Voyage  he  had 
been  fent  on.  W  hereunto 
they  were  unwilling,  but  on 
the  contrary,  him  detained  by 
force,  and  on  the  following 
Sunday,  difpatched  the  Vefl'el 
to  Little  Curaqao  againft  his 
will  where  the  aforefaid  Pri- 
vateer had  his  Lieutenant  with 
a  party  of  his  men  and  a 
Pirogue  to  watch,  as  they  faid, 
the  Company's  vefl'els. 

-On  the  morning  of  the 
following  Monday,  the  afore- 
faid Vefl'el  returned  with  the 


'  I  :i  W 


"<^'.fi, 


I      I 


(   20   ) 

Lieutenant  and  Crew,  leavir, 
their  Pirogue,  which  they  ha 
taken  from  the  Spaniards,  c 
the  coaft  of  Curaqao^  ftill  : 
Anchor  at  Little  Curaqao^  an 
towards  evening  fet  fail,  takin 
with  them  by  force  the  Com 
pany's  Veffel  on  board  ( 
which  he  put  his  crew,  leavin 
in  it  only  Skipper  Hans  afort 
faid  with  two  men  ;  and  the 
took  along  by  force  on  boan 
his  Ship  the  Deponent  wit 
the  reft  of  the  Crew  of  th 
Veffel  and  fome  belonging  t 
the  ftranded  Ship  and  pro 
ceeded  on  their  Voyage  t 
the  Coaft  of  Caraccas  wher; 


coi 

Fril 

derl 


Crew,  leavin 
hicJi  they  ha 
Spaniards,  c 
raqao^  ftill  ^ 
'  Curaqao^  an 
fet  fail,  takii] 
rce  the  Com 
'n     board    ( 
crew,  leavin 
r  Hans  afort 
^n;  and  the 
►rce  on  boaii 
eponent  wit 
Crew  of  tl 
belonging  t 
ip   and    pro 
■    Voyage  ti 
raccas  wher 


(    21    ) 

coming,  the  Rover  drove  a 
Frigate  afhore  which  was  un- 
derftood  to  mount  fix  guns, 
and  with  the  Company's  vefTei 
ftranded  a  Spanifh  Pirogue,  and 
afterwards  proceeded  to  the 
little  Ifland  of  David y  where 
they  came  to  an  Anchor. 
Deponent  having  requefted 
with  the  other  men  to  be  fet 
on  board  their  own  Bark,  they 
would  confent  that  the  De- 
ponent only  fhould  go  on 
board  the  bark  or  Veflel. 
The  Rover  remained  there  at 
Anchor  and  difpatched  the 
Deponent  with  fourteen  of 
fidd  Rover's  crew  in  the  Com- 


^ 


i  I. 


>M'lM'i 


(    22    ) 

pany's  veflel  to  Rocus^  wit 
orders  to  feize  the  Slaves  ; 
a  good  Prize,  even  though  tl 
Bark  named  the  Young  Bri?m 
Cow^  whereof  Jan  Ryckartj, 
was  Skipper,  which  had  bet 
fent  thither  by  the  Director  t 
fave  the  aforefaid  Slaves,  migl 
have  them  on  board. 

The  abovementioned  Bar 
had  lain  four  days  by  tt 
Wreck,  and  had  made  faft 
line  to  it  in  order  to  get  tl 
Negroes  on  board  by  that  mear 
and  fave  them ;  but  they  coul 
effed:  nothing  through  drea 
of  the  Negroes,  and  becaiil 
the  hands  on  board  the  Bar! 


^ ) 

3  Rocus^  wit 
the  Slaves  i 
^en  though  tl 
Young  Bri?ui 
^an  Ryckartk 
bich  had  bee 
he  Director  f 
i  Slaves,  migf 
oard. 

mtioned  Bar 
days  by  tl 
1  made  faft 
ler  to  get  tl 
I  by  that  mear 
)ut  they  coul 
hrough  drea 
and  becaiil; 
)ard  the  Bar! 


-'-» 


( 23 ) 


were  too  few.  They,  there- 
fore, refolved  to  await  the 
arrival  of  the  Veffel  whereof 
the  aforefaid  Hans  Stuyve  was 
Skipper,  in  order  thus  to  be 
ftronger  in  hands,  and  by  that 
means  better  able  to  bring  the 
Negroes  on  board.  Then,  on 
arriving  there,  the  Rover's 
fourteen  men  did,  in  the 
prefence  of  this  Deponent,  run 
aboard  them  with  the  veffel, 
and  attack  and  overpower 
them  in  a  hoftile  manner,  and 
took  the  boats  of  the  Bark  and 
the  Sloop,  all  the  Property  of 
the  Company,  and  with  them 
hauled   the    Negroes   off   the 


'.■•I 


li^i  ili| 


Slo^ 
the 
wai 
que 
anf 


(   24   ) 

Wreck  to  the  number  of  ei^l  ^^^ 

four   and   having    loaded  t:  rnit 

Bark  the  Brindled  Cow  wi  afoi 
them,   proceeded   to  Dam 
ijland   where    lay  the   Rovt 
who  took  all  the   Negroes  ( 
board. 

Meanwhile,    remained    t: 

Sloop  or  Veffel  with  the  H  of  \ 

ponent   at  Rocus^    pretendir  not 

ftill    an    inclination     to   &  Bar 

fomething,  and  came  the  i  the 

following,    to  David's  ijlai  like 

having     faved   fome    cookir  thii 

Kettles  and  Cordage  which  al  pan 

they  took  away  to  the  Rove  Cw 

When  this  was  accompliflie  is  ( 
the  Deponent  enquired  if  tk 


.*    J 


f ) 

Limber  of  ei^l 
ng  loaded  t: 
d/eci  Cow  w 
sd  to  David 
lay  the  Rovt 
de   Negroes  ( 

remained  t 
I  with  the  D; 
us,  pretendir 
ation     to    k 

came  the  i 
David's  ijlai 
fome  cookir 
iage  which  al 

to  the  Rove 

accompHfhe 

nquired  if  tk 


( 25 ) 

were  fitisfied  and  would  per- 
mit him  to  depart  with  the 
aforefliid  VcHel,  or  Company's 
Sloop,  rhey  anfwered,  When 
they  liad  hauled  wood  and 
water.  PerlifHng  in  his  re- 
queft,  lie  at  lafl  obtained  for 
anfwer,  That  the  Sloop  was 
of  ufe  to  them  and  they  would 
not  reftore  it,  and  in  cafe  the 
Bark  could  be  of  fervice  to 
them,  they  would  retain  her 
likewife,  and  further,  every 
thing  belonging  to  the  Com- 
pany on  the  way  to  or  from 
Curaqao.  However,  fince  Ihe 
is  of   no   ufe,  you   can   go   in 


D 


I  .'i  I 


!■. 


(  26  ) 

her  with  all  your  folks  ar. 
do'nt  give  much  jaw,  or  yr 
fhall  all  march  out  naked,  an 
do  you  go  quietly  on  boar 
and  do  not  hoift  a  Ungle  fa 
until  we  are  gone. 

On  the  evening  of  the  23c 
when  he  had  failed,  fteerin 
his  courfe  towards  the  Maii 
land,  we  took  our  departiir 
and  this  day  arrived  hen 
And  this  he  declares  to  hav 
thus  truly  occurred,  which  ; 
neceflary  he  will  confirm  1^ 
oath;  in  prefence  of  T/jeiin: 
Lucajfen  and  Peter  de  LeeiK 
as  Witneffes  hereunto  invitee 


in 

qao\ 

16 


I 
Skii 
Slo( 
C01 
ord 
hac 


' ) 

our  folks  ar, 
li  jaw,  or  yr 
)iit  naked,  an 
etly  on  boar 
ft  a  fingle  fa 
le. 

ig  of  the  23c 
liled,  fteeriii 
*ds  the  Mail 
our  departiir 
arrived  hen 
lares  to  hav 
red,  whieh  i 
1  confirm  b 
:e  of  Theun: 
'er  de  Leem 
;unto  invitd 


( 27 ) 

in  Fort  Amjlcrdam  at  Cura- 
qaOj  the  2  5^'^  November  A" 
1659. 

(Signed) 

]an  van  Gaelen. 
Witnefs 
Theun  is  Lucaifen, 
Peter  de  Leeuw. 
In  my  prefence, 
Nicolas  Hack, 

Secretary. 

Appeared  Jan  Rykartfen^ 
Skipper  of  the  Company's 
Sloop,  The  Young  Brindled 
CoWy  and  fays,  that  he  by 
order  of  the  Hon^'^^'  Director, 
had   gone  to  Aruba,      When 


<  I 


( 28 ) 

there,  received  Inftriidtions  t  the 
proceed  to  Rocus^  to  fave  tl   }Ja 
Company's   Slaves   who   wii   ski 
driven   on  Ihore   there  in  tl.  not 
Ship  St.   'Joh?i^   coming   fror  to 
the   Coaft  of   Guinea.      Thii   bee 
orders  I  immediately  execiitu   nui 
On  arriving  there,  I  iifed  ever    fea 
diligence  to  reach   the  Wrco        ( 
and  fo  far  fucceeded  as  to  gi  the 
a  line  on  board,  and  then  t\v    in  i 
Negroes   came    fwimming  t    upc 
the    l^oat    by    whom   the  Hii;   Wr 
had  been  paffed  on  board.     1    She 
afterwards  broke  .loofe  and  i    Dei 
confequence  of  bad  weather    faic 
I  could  not  go  on   board.     1    mij 
therefore,  refolved  to  wait  fo: 


3  ) 

Inftrii6lions  t 
'^s,  to  Hive  tl 

Vrs     who     Wci 

'-:  there  in  tii 
coming  froi 
liinea,  Tlui 
itely  exccutct 
'e,  I  iifcd  ever 
ch  the  Wrcci 
eded  as  to  gt 
and  then  t\v 
fwimming  t 
horn  the  lin, 
on  board.  1 
•loofe  and  ii 
bad  weather 
m  board.  1, 
-d  to  wait  fo 


(  29   ) 

the  Company's  veflel  whereof 
Hans  Marctijje?i  Stuyve  was 
Skipper,  who,  I  had  been 
notified,  would  come  to  help 
to  fave  the  Slaves ;  the  rather, 
becaufe  my  Crew  being  few  in 
number  flood,  therefore,  in 
fear  of  the  Negroes. 

On  the  1 6^'^  infiant,  arrived 
the  Veifel  which  attacked  me 
in  a  hoffile  manner.  Where- 
upon the  Deponent  demanded, 
What  are  you  about  ?  He  faid. 
Shew  your  Sea  brief  which 
Deponent  did.  That,  they 
faid,  was  well,  and  added,  he 
might  remain  in  their  fervice 


'I    "I 


-T' 


(  30  ) 

as  long  as  he  plcafcd,  whii 
he  refufed,  being  bound 
ferve  not  them,  but  the  Hon 
Diredlor  in  the  Company 
ferviee  upon  which  he  w 
difpatched.  Neverthelefs,  1 
and  his  Crew  were  compclli 
to  lubmit,  and  they  forcili 
took  away  his  Boat,  and  with 
the  Company's  Slaves  and  t! 
Boat  of  the  aforeiaid  Vcffi 
on  board  his  own  Ship,  an 
commanded  him  to  accon 
pany  them  to  David's  iJJan 
where  lay  the  Rover,  calk 
the  Cajlle  frigate^  the  Captai 
whereof    was    Jan    Pieterji 


of 
whc 
maf 
Cor 
and 
the 
the 
at  / 
boat 
out, 
mor 
deec 
Slav 
and 
[eth 


Prov 

Littl 


) 

)lcafcd,  wlii, 
ig  bound 
Hit  the  Hon 
■  Compani 
hich  he  w 
:verthele/s,  i 
:^re  compdli 
they  forciii 
at,  and  with 
)laves  and  t! 
reiaid  VcHt 
^n  Ship,  ail 
1  to  accoir 
^avid's  ijlcuh 
^over,  calli 
,  the  Captai 
an    PieterJ] 


(  3'    ) 

of  ColdiN^^'  in  Dcn7)ia7'h.  to 
whom  the  men  belonged  who 
maftered  and  eaptiired  the 
Company's  Veirel  aforefaid, 
and  transferred  the  Slavx's  to 
the  Ship.  In  the  meanwhile, 
the  aforefaid  Veifel  remained 
at  Rocus  with  the  Deponent's 
boat,  in  order,  as  they  gave 
out,  to  favx'  by  their  means, 
more  Property,  and  they,  in- 
deed, brought  off  two  more 
Slaves,  fome  Elephants'  teeth 
and  other  trifles,  fo  that  alto- 
gether they  took  84.  Slaves  and 

*A  City  in  the  S,  E.  Corner  of  the 
Province  of  North  Jutland,  near  the 
Little  Belt. 


I  '■,11 


( 32 ) 

2  fucking  Children.  They  all 
took  and  carried  off  the  atou 
faid  Company's  Veilel  wlierci 
Ha?is  Marcuj[fe?i  Stuyve  w, 
Skipper,  and  told  me,  tli 
Deponent,  that  even  had  F  ha 
faid  Slaves  on  board  the  Ikr 
on  their  arrival  at  Rociis^  the 
fhoiild  have  taken  them  avva 
by  force,  and  declared  thci: 
good  prize,  becaufe  I  hai 
no  Commiilion,  but  only 
Sea  brief.  And  the  Deponcn 
fiys,  that  they  offered  hiii 
money  for  the  fervice  they  hat 
received  from  his  Bark  aiiL 
Crew ;  this  he  refufed  to  take 
as  fuch  fervice  was  renderec 


\   1 


) 


1. 


d 


riicy  all 
ff  the  afon 
-ilcl  wlicrci 
Sttiyve  vVu 

nic,  til 
'11  had  I  ha 
rd  the  J^ar 

RoCtlS^   tilt 

them  awa 
lared  thcr 
Life  I  Jiat 
but  only 
t  Deponcn 
ffered  hiii 
ce  they  hat 

Bark  ant 
fcd  to  take 
s  renderec 


(  33  ) 

under  eonipiilfion,  for  he  owed 
them  no  ohedienee  and  eon  Id 
not  reeeive  any  thing  for  eom- 
pulfory  ferviee.  The  Deponent 
alfo  fays,  that  he  hath  given 
the  Captain  a  note  that  he 
had  reeeived  nothing  from 
them,  and  likewife  that  the 
Captain  of  the  aforefaid  Rover 
had  fent  the  Deponent  on 
board,  though  the  Crew  of 
the  aforefaid  Ha7Js  Marcujfe?i 
Stuyves  Bark,  belonging  to 
the  Company,  had  remained 
with  him,  and  ordered  me 
not  to  fail  before  he  had 
departed,  whieh  was  on  the 
evening  of  the  23d  of  No- 
E 


■r'   'i^;! 


I' 

I  •     I 


(  3+  ) 

vember,  he  fteering  towarc 
the  Coaftj  and  we  to  this  plac 
where  we  arrived  this  date 
And  this  he  declares  to  [ 
true  and,  if  needs  be,  \v[ 
confirm  the  fame  by  oatl 
Curaqao  in  Fort  Afnjlerda, 
the  25  th  November  A°  165^ 
(Signed) 

Jan  Rickertsen. 
Witnefs. 
Ghyfbert  de  Rofa 
Peter  de  Leeuw 

In  prefence  of  me 
Nicolas  Hack, 

Secretary, 


) 

'ing  towarc 
to  this  plac 
d  this  datt 
blares  to  l 
eds  be,  wi 
e  by  oatt. 
Amjlerda, 
er  A°  1659 

CKERTSEN. 

fa 

)f  me 
Hack, 

Secretary, 


( 35  ) 

Appeared  Ha7ts  Marcujfen 
Stuyve^  Skipper  of  the  Com- 
pany's Vellel,  and  declared; 
On  the  7  th  of  November 
I  failed  hence  by  order  of 
the  Hon*^'^  Director  for  Rocus^ 
there  to  fave  the  Company's 
Slaves  and  other  property  from 
the  Ship  St.  yohn  coming 
there  from  Guinea.  On  the 
following  day,  arrived  off  Bo- 
naire with  the  aforefaid  Bark, 
and  met  an  Englifh  Privateer, 
cwr  Rover,  who  having  the 
wind  of  us  obliged  us  to 
ftrike.  We  then  launched  our 
Boat  in  which  Jan  van  Gaelen 


J00 


r>'ji'* 


h'.'i'\'\* 


(     36     ) 

went  on  board  of  him  wit 
two  other  hands,  whom  tht 
detained,  and  fent  my  Bo. 
back  with  men  to  take  po 
feflion  of  my  Bark  which  tht 
did  and  carried  us  againft  01 
will  to  Bonaire^  where  bcii 
come,  they  put  more  haiii 
on  board  and  fent  this  Dtp 
nent  from  there  to  Liti 
Curaqao  to  fetch  the  Priv.; 
teer's  Lieutenant  and  fon. 
men  thence,  out  of  a  Pirogi 
which  they  had  taken  froi 
the  Spaniards  on  the  Coafti 
Caraccas  and  was  ftatione 
there  to  watch  the  Companv 
Veffels    going    in     and    out 


Beii 

over 

don 

ridii 

retu 

the 

and 

fet 

ftan 

the 

war 

whe 

Shii^ 

our 

aflic 

we 

ijla% 

and 


) 

of  him  wit 
Sj  whom  till 
t^nt   my   Bo 

to  take  po 
•k  which  tilt 
us  againft  oi 

where  bcii. 

more  haiii 
It  this  Dtp 
re  to  Liti 
h  the  Priv;; 
It    and    foil 

of  a  Piroat 

taken    froi 

the  Coaft  i 
/as  ftatioiie. 
le  Company 
n     and    out 


(  37  ) 

Being  come  there,  they  came 
over  in  our  Veflel  and  aban- 
doned the  Pirogue  leaving  her 
riding  at  anchor.  Thus  they 
returned  to  Bo?iaif^e^  where 
the  Rover  rode  at  anchor, 
and  being  come  there,  they 
fet  fail  altogether,  notwith- 
ftanding  every  Proteft  againfl: 
the  injuftice  they  did  us,  to- 
wards the  Coafl:  of  Caraccas 
where  they  drove  a  Spanifh 
Ship  afhore,  whilft  we  with 
our  Sloop  chafed  a  Pirogue 
afliore.  Steering  thence  back 
we  came  to  Little  David^s 
tjland  where  the  Rover  caft 
anchor,  and  having  put  more 


I'?' 


1  • 


( 38 ) 

men  on  board  of  us,  compel! 

us     to     go     to     Roc  us      to    f; 

the  Slaves  from  the  wrcxk 
Ship,  and  if  they  were  alrta 
faved  by  the  Company's  Bai 
whereof  yan  Ryckartfen  w 
Skipper,  to  capture  and  remc 
them  by  force.  On  arrivi 
there,  we  found  the  Bai 
which  we  immediately  board 
and  took  by  force,  removi 
all  the  Slaves  which  had  i 
ready  been  faved.  But  i 
though  they  had  been  the 
four  days  before  us,  they  we 
unable  to  eflect  any  thing 
the  line  they  had  fent  i 
board  the  Wreck,  had  aga 


brol 

not 

Wr( 

viol 

gro 

on 

find 

the) 

orde 

retu 

wea 

ther 

pow 

The 

witJ 

deff 

cou] 

lefs 


^ ) 

lis,  compdi 

ROCUS      to    f; 

i  the  wreck 
y  were  alrca 
•mpany's  Ba: 
lyckartfe?t  w 
J  re  and  renit 
On  arrivi 
id  the  Ba; 
liately  board 
rce,  removi 
A^hich  had  i 
ed.  But  ■ 
id  been  the 
;  us,  they  we 
:  any  thing 
had  fent  ( 
:k,   had   aga; 


(  39  ) 

broke  loofe  and  they  could 
not  afterwards  approach  the 
Wreck  in  confequence  of  the 
violent  wind.  Only  two  Ne- 
gro men  came  by  fwimming 
on  board  of  him ;  furthermore, 
finding  themfelves  !.oo  weak, 
they  waited  for  our  coming  in 
order,  being  thus  ftronger,  to 
return  and  fave  the  Slaves  Sec, 
weather  permitting.  Boarding 
then  the  Bark,  fhe  was  over- 
powered, as  flated,  by  force. 
Then  taking  their  Shallop 
with  ours,  the  Rover's  crew, 
delpite  our  Protefls  that  we 
could  not  affift  them,  much 
lefi  allow  them  to  ufe  our  Vef- 


■•■•il  jM  Vqi^ 


(  40  ) 

fel,  faved  and  brought  on  boa 
the  aforefaid  Bark  of  Skip- 
yan  Ryckertfen^  ^^g^ty  t 
Slaves  and  two  Sucklings  a 
fleered  away  with  them 
David's  iJJandy  where  £ 
Rover  lay  at  anchor  with 
Veffel  named  the  Cajllefrign 
the  Captain  whereof  was  J 
Pieterfen  of  Denmark^  a: 
compelled  us  to  remain  \v; 
our  Bark  at  Rocus^  with  t 
little  Sloop  of  Jan  Ryckeru 
aforefaid,  to  fave,  as  they  fai 
fome  other  Articles,  which  di 
did,  namely,  eight  or  nine  lit! 
elephants'  Teeth,  two  cooki: 
Kettles,   fome   tin    Ware  ar 


Cor 

witl 

the 

evei 

Cor 

pell 

had 

nen 

ufe 

whi 

givi 

wer 

but 

by 

thia 

viol 

aga 


) 

)ught  on  bo^ 
.rk  of  Skipj 

Eighty  t 
Sucklings  a 
vith    them 

where  t 
ichor  with  i 
1  Cajllefrigi] 
ereof  was  J 
^enmark^  a 
)  remain  wr 
Kus^  witli  I 
^an  Ryckert, 
s,  as  they  fai 
les,  which  di 
ht  or  nine  lit; 
.,  two  cooki: 
in    Ware  ai 


(41  ) 

Cordage,  and  proceeded  there- 
with to  David's  ijlajid^  where 
the  afore faid  Rover  removed 
every  thing  from  the  faid 
Company's  VeHels,  and  com- 
pelled lis  to  remain  until  he 
had  hauled  Wood  and  Water. 
Nay^  he  would  pay  the  Depo- 
nent for  his  trouble  and  the 
ufe  of  the  Veifels  and  Sloop, 
which  he  would  not  accept, 
giving  for  anfwer.  That  they 
were  fent  out  not  on  this, 
but  the  Company's  fervice 
by  the  Hon^''^'  Director  Mat- 
thias Beck^  and  that  force  and 
violence  had  been  employed 
againd  th  em .  Whereupon  the 
F 


(    +2     ) 

Captain  of  the  R  /er  w 
greatly  irritated,  aiv)  cariK 
oil  the  Deponent's  Vi  ie'l,  ik, 
withftandin^  he  had  'iio; 
than  three  times  exhibited 
him  his  Commiflion  whii 
the  Hon^'^'  Director  had  giv^ 
him,  acknowledging  even  tli 
the  Commiffion  was  valid  ai 
that  he  was  a  Free  man,  ai 
had  nothing  to  foy  agair 
him.  All  which  notwithfbiii 
ing,  he  afterwards  carried  ( 
my  Vefl'el  with  him,  fayinr 
He  had  need  of  it,  and  mac 
me  vacate  it  with  my  Mcr 
permitting  us  only  to  take  oii 
Clothing,  and  then  put  us  o: 


bor 

Th( 

that 

iorc 

kno 

was 

thii 

derf 

Anc 

to  £ 

whi( 

the 

fteei 

Mai] 

faid 

leavi 

Sailc 

o(L 

mail 


) 

:    R.  /er    w 

ann    carrii 

'S  V'  Tel,  IK, 

t  liad  »^no: 
exhibited 
ijfliou  whii 
tor  had  gi'. 
;ing  even  tli 
was  valid  ai 
ree  man,  ai 

lotwithflaiii 
ds  carried  i 
him,  layinr 
it,  and  mac 
th  my  Mcr 
y  to  take  oi 
en  put  us  0 


(43   ) 

borrd  Jan  Ryckertfen's  I^ark. 
The  Deponeiii  further  faith, 
that  he  was  compelled  per 
i'orce  to  fign  a  Note,  not 
knowing  its  contents,  for  it 
was  written  in  Kngliih,  and 
this  Deponent  does  not  un- 
derftand  the  Englilh  language. 
And  having  been  ordered  not 
to  lail  before  the  Rover  left, 
which  was  on  the  evening  ol 
the  23d  Noveinber  inftant, 
fteering  his  courfe  towards  the 
Main,  we,  with  the  afore- 
faid  Bark  of  Ja7i  Ryckertfen 
leaving  behind  one  of  our 
Sailors  named  yacob  Pieterfen 
of  Belcom^  who  voluntarily  re- 
mained with  them,  fleered  to- 


,M   ., 


(++    ) 

wards  this  Harbor,  where  w 
arrived  in  fafety  this  day.  An 
this  he  deelares  to  be  true  an 
will  confirm  the  fame  if  ncci 
be,  by  oath ;  in  prefenec  ( 
Ghyjhert  de  RoJ'a  and  Peter 
Leeiiw  as  witneiles  hereiin: 
invited.  Ctiraqao  in  Fort  Ai. 
Jlerdam  the  25  th  Novemk 
A°  1659. 

(Signed) 


This  is  the  mark 


f 


y^  of  Skipper 


Hans  Marcussen  Stuyve 
Witnefs  Ghyfbert  de  Rofi 

Peter  de  Leeuw 
In  prefence  of  me 

NicoLAES  Haek,  Secretary 


van 

he 

Va. 

Mi 

the 

as 

the 

wit 

anc 

in 

the 

to  1 

cee 

the 

pla 


) 

or,  where  w 
lis  day.  Ar, 
o  be  true  an 
fame  if  nac 
prefencc  ( 
and  Peter  i. 
lies  hereiin; 
0  in  Fort  Ai 
:li    Novemk 


"^  of  Skipper 
rSSEN  StUYVE 

•t  de  Rofa 
i  Leeuw 
e 

K,  Secretary 


(  45  ) 

Appeared  Adriae?i  Blaes 
van  dcr  Veer^  and  faith,  that 
he  was  commanded  by  Joha?! 
Valcke7ihurch  General  of  £/ 
Mina  and  the  Gold  Coajl^  on 
the  4th  of  March  laft  to  fliil 
as  Skipper  of  the  Ship  St. 
yohn^  from  the  Roadftead  of 
the  Cajlle  del  Mina  aforefaid, 
with  Commiifary  yohan  Froon 
and  the  accompanying  Sailors, 
in  the  Company's  fervice,  to 
the  Calabar i  or  Rio  Real^  there 
to  trade  for  Slaves  and  to  pro- 
ceed with  them,  by  order  of 
the  aforefaid  General,  to  this 
place.      In  obedience  to  thefe 


'* 
"% 


1 

1' 

■ 

'1   'i    '      ,:■] 

'1 

M 

1 ! 

1 

ill         ''' 

li, 

i 

i! 

1 

1 

(  +6  ) 

orders,  Two  hundred  and  nk, 
teen  Slaves  big  and  little,  wt: 
actually  traded  and  piirehafi 
wherewith  we  failed  in  ord 
to  proiecute  our  Voyage  ar 
carry     out     our    Inflrudioi. 
Not  obtaining  at  the  CalahiX 
fuch  fufficiency   of  provilior 
as  this  Voyage  demanded,  k 
the  fuftenance  of  the  aforcliii 
Slaves,  we  refolved  to  go  to  tl 
Highland  of  Ambojius  wlui 
we   were    unable    to   proem 
any    Provifions,    as    was    oi 
deiire.      We,   therefore    wer; 
to  the  River  CameroneSy  when 
we   obtained  a  few  Articles 
but  not  as  much  as  we  wanted 


Vo^ 
Go] 
tool 
the] 


we 


) 

Ired  and  nk, 

icl  little,  wt 

[ui  piirchafc\ 

tiled   in  Old 

r  Voyage  ai 

Inftriidioi; 

the  Calak 

of  provifior 

demanded,  ii 

the  aforcfai 

'd  to  go  to  tl 

nbojius  wIuT 

to   prociir 

as    was    01 

refore    wtii 

eronesy  when 

ew  Articles, 

s  we  wanted 


(47  ) 

Ncverthelefs,  we  piirfued  our 
Voyage  towards  Capo  de  Lopo 
Gonfalvcs^  at  wliich  place  we 
took  in  V'-^ood  and  Water,  and 
thence  flood  acrofs  although 
experiencing  great  mifery  and 
want  of  food,  to  A?uibo^  where 
we  got  fome  Provifions  and 
went  on  our  Voyage  and  made 
land  in  the  month  of  OElober 
laft  at  the  I  Hand  of  Tobago^  the 
greater  portion  of  the  Slaves 
having  died  Irom  Want  and 
Sicknefs,  in  confequence  of 
fuch  a  very  long  Voyage,  fo 
that  we  faved  only  Ninety 
Slaves,  out  of  the  whole  Cargo. 
Having    taken   in  wood    and 


m 


"f  \w 


'M'iM 


(+8  ) 

water  and  a  few  Refrefhiner 
from  the  fiirroiinding  lilanc 
we  fet  fail  and  after  -we  fix, 
our  coiirfe  on  the  Jirjf  inftai 
weft  by  foiith,  we  ran  alho: 
two  hours  before  day,  on  o 
of  the  Rifts  of  Rocus^  on  t 
North  Eaft  fide  of  the  lilai; 


rerceiving  our  danger,  v 
faved  ourfelves  with  all  t: 
Crew  in  the  Boat,  leaving  t 
Negroes  in  the  Ship,  takif 
our  courfe  to  this  place, 
order  to  inform  the  Hon 
Director  M.  Beck  of  our  Ali 
fortune.  After  we  had  It 
fome  of  the  men  at  Bonajr 
becaufe     the    Boat    was    u 


nea^ 

we 

infti 

felv( 

Din 

witl 

whi 

had 

the 

ord( 

fels 

Jan 

pan 

on  t 

ovei 

fel, 

Stu;^ 

van 


) 

Refrefhiner. 
nding  Iflanc 
after  we  fix^ 
e/r/?  inftar 
ve  ran  aihoi 
e  day,  on  o 
Rocus^  on  t 
of  the  lilaii 
danger,  v 
with  all  t 
It,  leaving  t: 

Ship,  takii 
this  place, ; 
n  the  Hon 
k  of  our  iM; 
we  had  V 
rv  at  Bonajr 
Dat    was    u 


M  (  4-9  ) 

heavily  laden  with  the  Crew, 
we  arrived  here  on  t\\c  fourth 
inftant.  Ffaving  reported  oiir- 
felves  to  the  aforefaid  Hon^'''-" 
Diredor,  he  difpatehed  me 
with  the  above  I^oat  to  Aruha^ 
whither  tlie  Company's  Velfels 
had  failed,  the  day  before,  on 
the  Company's  biilinefs,  with 
orders  to  proceed  in  faid  Vcf- 
fels  with  hve  of  my  men,  and 
Jan  van  Gaeloi^  the  Com- 
pany's fervant.  Arriving  there 
on  the  following  day,  we  went 
over  in  the  Company's  Vef- 
fel,  whereof  Hans  Marciijjhi 
Stuyic  was  Skippt-r,  with  Jan 
van  Gaelc7i^  and  two  of  my 
G 


I 


(  50  ) 

Crew,  and  the  other  thret 
my  men  in  the  Bark,  ca! 
The  Yotmg  Brindled  Co^i:^ 
which  ya7i  Ryckertfen  \ 
Skipper,  all  in  the  fervicx 
the  Company. 

We  purfued  our  Vov; 
without  any  mifliap,  purfu 
to  the  orders  we  had  recciv 
from  the  aforefaid  Hon^'^^'  I 
redtor  here,  and  fo  on  to  7?w 
to  ilive  the  Slaves  and  Slii 
property,  and  having  fa[ 
on  the  evening  of  thcfeva 
after  remaining  half  an  hi 
here,  we  arrived  in  the  afc 
noon  of  the  following  day 
Bonayre   where    we    met 


Enf 

the 

and 

and 

afoi 

wer 

hirt] 

and 

Th( 

diff 

whi 

he 

Shi] 

part 

Pie< 

faid 

ing 

fore 


% 


0  ) 

other  three 
e  Bark,  cat 
indled  Co^i:^ 

the  fervice 

1  our  Voy;: 
Ifliap,  purfii; 
e  had  receii 
aid  Hon^'J^'  [ 

fo  on  to  R(j[ 

-ves  and  Slii 

having    fai 

of  they^w,: 

;  half  an  In 

d  in  the  afc 

lowing  dayt 

we    met  . 


( 51  ) 

Englifh  Privateer,  who  having 
the  wind  of  11  s,  overtook  us 
and  compelling  us  to  ftrike 
and  to  fend  off  a  Boat,  the 
aforefaid  Jcdi  van  Gaekfi 
went  on  board  him,  who  told 
him,  we  came  from  Curaqao 
and  were  going  to  Bo?iayre. 
Thereupon,  the  faid  Privateer 
difpatched  in  our  Boat,  in 
which  ya?i  va?i  Gaele?i  whom 
he  detained,  had  gone  to  his 
Ship,  on  board  our  Veffel  a 
party  of  his  men  to  fearch  for 
Pieces  of  Eight  which,  they 
faid,  we  had.  Then  not  find- 
ing any,  as  we  had  none,  they 
forced  us   to   run  with  them 


n 


(  52  ) 

up  the  Roadftead  of  Bo?2ay?'e^ 
wlicrc  wc  arrived  about  tuo 
hours  before  the  Privateer. 
Some  of  my  Men  who  >verc 
on  ihore,  not  knowing  any 
thing  of  thele  proeeedings, 
called  out.  If  I  were  on  board? 
The  Privateer's  men  takin<j; 
up  the  word  before  me,  afked, 
Who?  Thereupon  they  an- 
fwered,  The  Skipper  of  the 
Ship  wrecked  at  Roc  us  ^  adding, 
Had  we  been  to  the  Slaves,  or 
were  we  going  to  fave  them  ? 
The  Privateers  anfwered,  That 
they  were  going  to  fave  them ; 
manifefting  great  joy  thereat, 
faying,    when    the     Privateer 


m 


tccr. 

any 
ings, 
arcl  ? 
ikinii; 
,{kcd, 
^  an- 
f  the 

i5 


(  53   ) 

cart  anchor,  Captain,  wc  have 
a  good  Prize.  Thereupon  they 
forced  the  Deponent  to  go  on 
board  the  Rover  which  was  a 
fniall  Frigate,  carrying  fou7^ 
guns,  and  about  th'n^ty  men, 
whereof  ya7i  Pieterjhi^  a  na- 
ti\'e  of  De?imark^  was  Captain. 
This  Vellel  was  called  The 
Caftle  frigate.  Coming  on 
board,  the  Captain  enquired, 
Mow  many  Negroes  he  had  left 
on  his  Ship?  Deponent  an- 
fwered.  Eighty,  When  he 
heard  that,  he  fent  the  Vefl'el 
in  which  the  Deponent  came, 
to  Little  Ciiraqao^  to  bring  his 
Lieutenant   and   fome   of    his 


:i|B! 


{  5+  ) 

men,  who  were  lying  there  in 
a  Periauger,  which  they  had 
taken  from  the  Spaniards,  to 
watch  the  Company's  Vefl'els. 
Meanwhile  this  Deponent  re- 
mained on  board  the  Rover, 
and  they  returning  to  us  in  the 
Roadftead  of  Bo?2ayre.  the  Ro- 
ver  permitted  this  Deponent 
to  go  back  to  the  Bark,  on 
board  of  which  ftill  were,  Skip- 
per Hans  Marciijjen  aforefaid, 
with  one  of  his  hands,  who  had 
been  compelled  to  go  to  Little 
Curaqao  to  fetch  his  Lieuten- 
ant and  men.  To  this  Veflel  I 
came,  as  flatcd,  fiom  the 
aforefaid    Rover  with   two  of 


my  ( 

five  1 

on 

The 

havii 

tciiai 

his  h 

we  ft 

Icavi] 

fome 

whor 

force 

heed] 

quell: 

they 

be,  h 

Com 

Honi 


(  55  ) 

my  Crew,  being  then  in  all 
jive  fervants  of  the  Company 
on  faid  Company's  Vellel. 
The  Captain  of  the  Rover 
having  then  placed  his  Lieu- 
tenant and  Pilot,  with  fome  of 
his  hands,  on  board  the  Bark, 
we  fet  fail  under  compulfion, 
lca\ing  yan  va?2  Gaelen  and 
fome  of  our  men  behind, 
whom  the  Rover  retained  by 
force  on  board  his  Ship,  i-ot 
heeding  any  protefts  or  re- 
quefts  as  free  men,  which 
diey  themfelves  admitted  us  to 
be,  having  cognizance  of  the 
Commiflion  granted  by  the 
Hon^'^^  Diredior  to  the  afore- 


!    I 


(  56  ) 

faid  Ha?ts  Mafxujfen  Stuyve^ 
as  Skipper  of  the  aforefaid 
Vefl'el,  and  that  therefore,  they 
iifed  force  and  violence  to- 
wards us  who  were  not  in  any 
manner  in  their  fervice,  but 
indeed  in  that  of  the  Com- 
pany, to  whom  alone  we  owed 
Obedience,  and  that  for  the 
piirpofe  of  executing  the  or- 
ders of  the  Hon^''^  Dire6tor,  to 
which  end  and  to  no  other, 
were  we  fent  out.  All  this 
notwithftanding,  were  we  com- 
pelled to  accompany  the  afore- 
faid Rover  who  fet  fail  at  the 
fame  time,  taking  his  courfc 
towards  the  Main  land  of  Ca- 


m     racci 

1      aS, 

1     g^'"^ 

our 

pone 

IVrii 

they 

i      to  ci 

iindc 

-     and 

in  oi 

berec 

I     whih 

And 

Oi 

1     ^^'^ 

'4 

?     Com 

Toiui 

I  any 
,  but 
Corn- 
owed 
)r  the 
le  or- 
tor,  to 
other, 

II  this 
t  com- 
afore- 
at  the 
courfe 
of  Ca- 


(   57  ) 

raccas  where  he  drove  on  fhorc 
a  Spanilh   Ship   mounting  y7^ 
guns,   and  with   our   Hark,  in 
our  prefence  and   before  De- 
ponent's faee,  drovx'  a  Spanilh 
Periauger     ailiore.        Thence 
they  and   the  Rover  forced  us 
to  crofs   over  and  cafl  anchor 
under   Little    David's  ijhwd^ 
and  having  put  more  people 
in  our   l^ark,  until  fhe   num- 
bered   in    all    fourteen    men, 
whilft   he    remained  there  at 
Anchor,  we  fet  fail  for  Roctis. 
On  arriving  at  that   place, 
we    found    the    other  of    the 
Company's  Veflels,  named  The 
Toung  Brindled  Cow^  whereof 
H 


i 


(  58  ) 

Ja7i  Ryckertfen  aforefaid  was 
Skipper,  with  three  of  my  men 
on  board,  who  accompanied 
him  to  Artiha^  out  of  my 
Boat.  They  went  thither,  as 
already  ftated,  by  command 
of  the  aforefiiid  Hon^''^"  Di- 
rector, alfo  with  orders  to  no 
other  intent  than  to  fave  the 
aforefaid  Shives  &c,  and  had 
lain  there  four  Days  and  had 
fo  far  fucceeded  as  to  pafs  a 
line  on  board  my  Ship,  two 
of  the  Negroes  coming  on 
board  fwimming.  The  afore- 
faid line  breaking  loofe,  and 
finding  themfelves  too  weak 
in  confequence  of  the  ftrong 


I 


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allied 
f   my 
Lcr,  as 
mand 
'■    Di- 
to  no 
e  the 
i  had 
d  had 
pafs  a 
,   two 
ig    on 
atorc- 
b,  and 
weak 
ftrong 


(  59  ) 

wind,  the  Men  rcfolvcd  to 
wait  our  arriv^al,  having  been 
informed  of  our  approaeh,  fo 
as,  when  thus  reinh)rced  and 
the  Weather  would  moderate, 
to  favx'  with  our  Sh)op  and 
Boat  the  aforefaid  furviving 
Slaves  &c.  from  my  Ship  whieh 
alfo  belonged  to  the  Company. 
Then  they,  the  Rover's  men, 
who  were  on  board  our  l^ark, 
fuppofing  that  the  aforefaid 
Skipper  Jan  Ryckertfen  with 
his  Crew  and  my  three  men 
had  faved  all,  coming  to  them 
went  on  board  with  our  Bark, 
according  to  the  orders  they 
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(60     ) 

Captain,  who  had  been  in- 
formed of  the  departure  ot 
the  aforefaid  Company's  Bark 
and  the  purport  for  which  we 
were  fent  out,  by  a  Frieflander 
named  Jacob  Peterfen  from 
Belcom^  a  Sailor  in  the  Com- 
pany's fervice,  under  Skipper 
Ha72s  Marcujfen  Stuyve^  who 
had  voluntarily  deferted  to 
them  on  the  fame  day  that 
we  came  on  board  the  Rover. 
Which  orders  were  to  board 
them,  to  fee  if  they  had  laved 
the  Slaves  &c.  and  to  feize 
and  remove  them.  They  ac- 
cordingly did  attack  them  in 
a  hoftile  manner  in  the  pre- 


M      .' 


i  u 


(  6i   ) 

fence  of  the  Deponent  and 
four  other  of  the  Company's 
Servants  who  could  not  refrain 
from  remonftrating  againft  the 
injuflice  which  they  demon- 
ftrated  they  were  doing.  Find- 
ing that  no  more  than  the  two 
aforefaid  Slaves  had  been  faved, 
they  took  away,  per  force  our 
Boat  together  with  Jan  Ryck- 
ertjens  Boat,  all  the  property 
of  the  Company  appertaining 
to  the  aforefaid  Veffels,  and 
with  them,  the  weather  mod- 
erating fomewhat,  removed 
the  Slaves  from  my  Ship, 
making  ufe  for  that  purpofe 
of  one  of  my  Matroffes  named 


m 


fj 


(62 ) 

Martin  Michielfen  van  Huljl^ 
who  was  on  board  ^an  Ryck- 
ertfens  Bark  aforefaid.  By 
his  affiftance,  for  the  Ne- 
groes knew  him  and  called 
him  by  name,  the  aforefaid 
yan  Ryckertfen  got  the  line 
on  board,  and  in  like  manner 
accompanied  one  of  the  Ro- 
vers at  the  time  all  the  Slaves 
&c.  were  on  board,  and  then 
came  again  fwimming  on 
board  the  Lieutenant  of  the 
Rover  with  two  of  his  men, 
who  then  numbered  four^ 
having  again  brought  a  rope 
on  board  from  the  Company's 
Veffel  by  which   they  let  all 


(63  ) 

the  Negroes  who  were  capa- 
ble of  fwimming,  fwim  off  to 
the  Rift,  whilft  they  brought 
thofe  who  could  not  fwim  in 
a  Boat  belonging  to  the  afore- 
Hiid  Veffels,  to  the  fame  Rift, 
and  having  meanwhile  made 
the  other  13oat  dry  infide  the 
Rift,  they  brought  in  her  on 
board  the  aforefaid  Jan  Ryck- 
ertfe^fs  Bark,  eighty  two  Slaves 
and  two  Sucklings.  And  this 
Deponent  having,  before  they 
removed  any  of  the  Slaves, 
requefted  of  the  Lieutenant 
and  his  men  belonging  to  the 
Rover,  permifHon  to  go  with 
his  aforefaid  Matrofs,  he  was 


'  ti 


I  1 
i 


(6+  ) 

unwilling  to  grant  it  until 
fome  of  the  Slaves  had  been 
removed  out  of  the  Ship,  fo 
that  when  this  Deponent  went 
on  board  his  Ship  there  re- 
mained on  board  no  more  than 
about  thirty  Slaves.  After  all 
the  Negroes  had  been  removed 
from  his  Ship,  this  Deponent 
was  conveyed  to  yan  Ryckert- 
fens  Bark,  with  the  Inftruc- 
tions  which  General  yohan 
Valckenburgh  had  given  him, 
together  with  all  the  Papers 
and  Accounts  of  the  faid  Com- 
miffary,  relating  to  his  freight 
and  other  buiinefs  matters, 
done  purfuant  to  the  Compa- 


(  6s  ) 

ny's  orders.  Then  the  Depo- 
pcnt  was  conveyed  by  them 
with  the  aforefoid  Bark  and 
Negroes,  to  David's  ijland^ 
where  the  Rover  hiy  at  anclior 
waiting  for  us,  leaving  behind 
them  the  Vefl'el  whereof  Jan 
Marcujfen  Sttiyve  is  Skipper, 
to  fave  two  Negroes  whom  the 
Deponent  had  left  on  board 
when  he  quit  the  Ship.  That 
Veilel  joined  them  the  next 
A:\y  '^^  David's  ijland^  bringing 
along  the  two  aforefaid  Slaves, 
fome  Kettles,  Rope  and  about 
70  pounds  of  Elephants'  teeth, 
alfo  fome  Flags,  Compaffes 
and  other  articles.  The  Rover 
I 


i.  ' 


IM-. 


?? 


1 1 


(  66  ) 

having  removed  the  Slaves  and 
every  thing  elfe  out  of  the 
Company's  Veflels,  took  from 
the  Deponent  the  Inftriidlions 
given  him  by  the  General,  with 
all  the  Commifl'ary's  Papers, 
notwithftanding  the  protefts 
and  requefts  to  the  contrary, 
giving  the  Deponent  for  an- 
fwer,  that  all  belonged  to  him. 
He,  moreover,  commanded 
them  to  remain  by  him  until 
he  had  hauled  Wood  and 
Water,  and  afterwards  took 
Hans  Marcujfen  Stuyves  Vef- 
fel,  faying  he  required  her. 
He  then  made  the  Deponent 
remain  on  board  yan  Ryckert- 


'■■  '1 


'ii ! 
ill-  ^■ 


]  1 


(  67  ) 

fens  Bark,  compelling  him 
to  make  room  for  faid  Hans 
Mar  cuff  en  Stuyve  with  all  his 
Crew  and  fome  of  the  Depo- 
nent's men.  Then  he  ordered 
them  not  to  fail  for  this  Place 
until  he  had  taken  his  depart- 
ure, which  was  on  the  23d 
inrtant,  fteering  his  courfe  to- 
wards the  Main.  And  this 
Deponent  with  his  Crew  and 
that  of  the  Company's  Bark, 
took  their  courfe  with  the  afore- 
(aid  'Jan  Ryckertfens  Bark,  to 
this  Place  where  they  arrived 
in  fafety  on  the  25^*^  inftant. 
This  he  declares  to  be  the 
truth,  and  to  have  thus   oc- 


(68  ) 

curred,  and  will  if  needs  be, 
confirm  the  fame  on  oath,  in 
prefence  of  Mr  Gyjbert  de 
Rofa  and  Peter  de  Leetiw^ 
witneffes  hereunto  invited. 
Curasao  in  Fort  Amjierdam 
the  'zyth  November  K""  1659. 
(Signed) 

Adriaen  Blaes. 
Witneffes. 
Ghyfbert  de  Rofa 
Peter  de  Leeuw 
In  my  prefence 

NiCOLAES    HaEK, 

Secretary. 


■f  vi 


*  J 


(  69  ) 


PROCLAMATION. 

Matthias  Beck,  /;/  the  fervice 
of  their  High  Mightinejfes 
the  Lords  States  General  of 
the  free  United  Netherlands 
a?id  of  the  Hon^^^  General 
Incorporated  Wejl  India 
Company^  Governor  over  the 
Cura9ao  IJJandsy  Greeting: 

BE  it  known^  that  one  Jan 
Pieterfen  of  Coling  in 
De7tmark^  ftyling  himfelf  Com- 
mander of  a  Ship  called  The 
Cajlle  Frigate^  having  with 
him  fome  Englifhmen,  French- 


i'  'i 


.11 


t  J. 


hi  \  , 


(  70) 

men  and  Dutchmen,  who  arc 
criiifing  with  him  on  this 
Coaft  in  the  Ship  aforefaid, 
hath  dared  to  attack  the  Com- 
pany's Vefl'els  near  Bonayre 
and  Rocus^  and  forcibly  to  take 
pofleflion  thereof,  and  with 
them  and  the  Company's  Men 
to  take  by  force,  among  others, 
eighty  four  healthy  Negroes 
out  of  the  Company's  Ship, 
called  The  St,  John^  coming 
from  the  Coaft  of  Guinea^ 
which  was  wrecked  on  the 
Rifts  of  Rocus^  where  one  of 
the  aforefaid  Company's  Ships 
was  already  engaged  in  faving 
faid  Negroes  for  the  Company, 


i '}}.  f' 


i,i 


I  : 


'I   ; 

fi 

i,  A 


(  71   ) 

vvhofc  Property  they  were, 
with  all  that  was  in  the  Ship, 
to  bring  them  here  to  CuraqaOy 
for  whieh  piirpofe  they  were 
expreilly  fent  hence  thither; 
Regardlefs  whereof,  the  afore- 
faid  Jan  Pieterfen  hath  not 
only  prevented  the  Company's 
Veffels  executing  their  In- 
ftriidtions  and  Orders,  but  hath 
made  himfelf  Mafter  of  faid 
Veifels,  and  with  them  and 
Boats,  ftole  not  only  the  faid 
Negroes  and  every  thing  elfe, 
but  in  addition  thereto  carried 
off  one  of  the  Company's  beft 
failing  Veffels  called  The  Young 
OJlrichy  to  the  great  damage 


(    72    ) 

of  the  Hon'^^^  Company,  and 
appropriated  the  fame  to  him- 
felf  as  good  booty,  fo  as  all  is 
to  be  feen  by  the  Informations, 
Relations,  Reports  and  Dela- 
rations  of  the  Skipper  and 
Crews  of  the  Vefl'els  aforefiid. 
And  Whereas  the  aforefaid 
yan  Pieterfen  and  his  Men 
have  heretofore  commiited 
fimilar  ad:s  under  irregular 
Commiflion  and  perfift  in  the 
fame  courfe,  efpecially  as  pub- 
lic Pirates,  by  the  feizure  of 
the  Company's  Vefl'el  and 
Negroes,  and  have  threatened 
to  continue  fo  to  do;  And 
Whereas  among  others,  one  of 


i !  ' 


i  !■ 


(  n  ) 

the      Company's       Matroffcs 
named  yan  Pieterfen  of  Bel- 
com^   a  Frieflander,   being   in 
our     adual     fervice,    having 
foiled  as  Matrofs  on  board  the 
Company's  ftyger  fchuit,  The 
Totmg    Bf^indled    Cow^    hath 
voluntarily  gone  over  to  this 
Pirate,  difregarding  the  Alle- 
giance,     Plight     and     Oath, 
whereby  he  was  bound  to  the 
Company,   but    on    the    con- 
trary, as  appears   by  Informa- 
tion, hath    aded   and   is  ftill 
adting,    as    a    Spy    for    thefe 
Pirates;   All  which  and  what 
precedes  are  matters  of  very 
ill     confequence,     of    ferious 
K 


iini<)«m 


MKMMItlli 


MiMMiriHtiMMAW 


)  ,^i 


(  74  ) 

damage  and  moment  to  the 
Hon^^^  General  Incorporated 
Weft  India  Company,  who 
will  not  fail  to  exprefs  their 
higheft  Indignation  on  this 
fubjedl,  and  endeavor  by  all 
ways  and  means,  not  only 
to  make  good  and  to  pro- 
cure an  indemnity  for  their 
damages  and  loffes  already 
fuffered  by  the  ftealing  of 
their  Veflel  and  Negroes,  fo 
illegally  purloined  from  them, 
but  above  all,  to  procure  that 
fuch  Rovers  fhall  be  puniftied 
as  Pirates  and  Robbers,  ac- 
cording to  their  deferts,  as  an 
Example  to  others. 


(  75  ) 

To  this  end,  therefore,  with 
the  advice  of  Our  Council, 
upon  the  certain  Proofs  and 
Reports  to  Us  rendered.  We, 
being  unwilling  to  lofe  any 
time  in  overhauling  the  faid 
Sea  Robbers,  have  Refolved 
and  concluded,  in  the  Name 
and  on  the  Behalf  of  the 
Lords  Principals,  their  High 
Mightineffes  the  Lords  States 
General,  and  the  Hon^'^  Ge- 
neral Incorporated  Weft  India 
Company,  for  their  protection 
and  the  Public  Good,  hereby 
to  warn  all  the  Company's 
Captains,  and  Ships  as  well 
as  Private  Skippers  and  Ships 


mmmm^ 


If'' 


...i 


If' 


I;  \    1  /■ 


(    76    ) 

and  Veffels  at  prefent  lying 
or  about  to  come,  within  this 
Harbor,  who  owe  allegiance 
to  their  High  Mightinefles  the 
Lords  States  General  and  are 
in  the  fervice  of  the  Hon^'^* 
General  Incorporated  Weft 
India  Company  not  only  to 
be  on  their  guard  againft  the 
aforefaid  Pirates  and  Sea  Rob- 
bers, but  fhould  they  meet 
them  at  Sea,  them  to  attack, 
openly  and  with  force  and 
arms,  and  bring  them  in  here 
to  Curaqao^  or  if  they  fall  in 
with  them  at  any  of  the  Lee- 
ward IJlands^  to  complain  of 
them  to   the    Governors   and 


(  77  ) 

Magiftrates  at  fuch  place  where 
they  happen  to  find  them,  ac- 
cording to  the  Proofs  thereof 
in  exiftence,  and  to  procure  that 
fuch  Juftice  may  be  inflided 
upon  them  as  the  Informations 
ihall  juftify.  Requefting  all 
Generals,  Governors  and  Com- 
manders both  on  Sea  and  on 
Land,  to  whom  thefe  Our 
Letters  for  the  execution  of 
the  premifes  fhall  be  fhown, 
to  adminifter  good  Law  and 
Tuftice  to  them.  Such  will 
We  reciprocate  on  like  Occa- 
fion.  Thus  done  and  enacted 
on  the  Ifland  Curaqao  in  Fort 
Anijterdam  the  5  th  December^ 
A°  1659. 


-h 


(    78    ) 

Fice  DireElor  Beck  /<?  /y6^  West 
India  Company,  Chamber  at 
Amjlerdam, 

CuragaOy  5  January,  1660. 

Honorable,  Refpeded,  Wife, 
Prudent  and  moft  Difcreet 
Sirs, 

Gentlemen^ 

BY  the  Ships  King  Solomon 
and  St.  John  3d  Sep- 
tember, was  my  laft  to  your 
Honors,  to  which  I  refer. 

I  defpatch  thefe  few  lines 
at  prefent  by  the  bearers 
hereof,    the    Commiffary  and 


%  -" 


»■. ;,; 


(  79  ) 

Skipper  of  the  Ship  St,  John^ 
who  coming  from  the  Coaft 
of  Guinea  with  Negroes  were 
wrecked  on  Rocus  on  the 
Voyage  hither,  leaving  behind 
them  fome  Eighty  Hving  Slaves, 
befides  many  and  a  greater 
number  of  dead  ones  who  were 
ftarved  on  the  way  for  want 
of  food.  Your  Honors  will 
pleafe  fee  in  the  accompanying 
Papers  what  diligence  I  have 
ufed  to  fave  thofe  living ;  alfo, 
how  the  Sea  Rovers,  of  whom 
I  heretofore  advifed  you,  have 
carried  off  not  only  the  Ne- 
groes, but  alfo  the  beft  of  the 
Company's  "Barks,  as  appears 


<      t 


"■(    ;• 


(  8o) 

by  the  faid  Papers,  to  which 
and  to  the  verbal  Report  of 
the  aforefaid  Commifl'ary  and 
Skipper  I,  for  brevity  fake, 
refer. 

With  fubmiffion  to  your 
Honors,  it  would  in  my  opi- 
nion not  be  unadvifablc  if  a 
fuitable  well  fitted  VefTel  or 
Yacht  could  be  obtained,  car- 
rying half  a  dozen  guns.  She 
could  be  employed  in  bringing 
Horfes  from  Aruba  to  Bonayre 
and  this  place,  many  of  which 
are  now  bitten  to  death  by 
the  Rattlefnakes  there,  and  on 
fuch  occurring  occafions  be 
manned  with  hands  fufficient 


1 


( «I ) 

to  overhaul  fuch  Sea  Rovers, 
and  ufed  for  various  other 
purpofes. 

As  it  is  in  the  higheft  de- 
gree neceffary  to  look  after  the 
Sea  Rovers,  in  order  at  leaft 
to  imprefs  them  with  the  fear 
of  approaching  fo  near  us, 
I  have  chartered  a  fmall  pri- 
vate Boat,  mounting  y?^  guns, 
ftrongly  manned  and  double 
armed  to  look  up  the  afore- 
faid  Sea  Robbers  at  the  place 
where,  we  prefume,  they  are 
fojourning,  in  the  hope  of 
obtaining  not  only  fome  ad- 
vantage over  them,  but  if  we 
fhould  catch  the  Ringleaders, 
L 


(i 


(  82   ) 

of  having  fuch  punifliment 
inflidted  on  them  as  would 
lerve  as  an  example  to  others. 
Herein  we  fhall  not  fail  in 
our  duty. 


-'■  X 


|:^' 


(  83  ) 


DireSlor   Beck    to    DireElor 

Stuyvesant. 
CuragaOy  4.  February ^  1660. 

MY  laft  dated  23  Auguft 
and  loth  September 
were  fent  your  Honor  by  the 
Ship  Sphera  Mundi  as  per 
copies  annexed,  to  which  I 
refer.  Since  then,  I  have  had 
none  of  yours  to  acknowledge. 
Therefore  this  fhall  be  the 
fliorter,  the  rather  as  I  tranf- 
mit  enclofed  to  you  open  the 
accompanying  defpatch  to  our 
Lords  Mafters,  in  order  that 


I 


(8+  ) 

you  may,  yoiirfclf,  be  able  to 
fee  from  it  what  tranfpired 
here,  and  having  taken  cog- 
nizanee  thereof  to  feal  and 
fend  it  by  the  firft  faiHng  Ship 
to  Amfterdam  to  the  Lords 
Mafters. 

As  your  Honor  will  be  able 
to  glean  from  the  Informations 
and  Papers  inclofed  therein, 
what  fort  of  Sea  Rovers  here 
have  taken  the  Company's 
Negroes  and  Bark,  among 
which  vilitors  was  alfo  to  be 
found  one  Pickled  Herrings 
who  formerly  went  privateer- 
ing with  Captain  Beaulieuw^ 
and  now  and  then  makes  his 


(  85  ) 

appearance  in  your  Honor's 
jiirifdidion  in  New  Nether- 
Umd^  and  poffibly  fome  of  the 
Ringleaders  of  them  may  land 
there,  we  wifh,  in  fuch  cafe, 
that  they  were  made  known 
to  you,  to  the  end  that  you 
may  caufe  fuch  Juftice  to  be 
adminiftered  to  them  as  they 
deferve. 

If  your  Honor  have  an 
opportunity  of  writing  to 
Ja?naica^  where  I  partly  un- 
dcrftand  thefe  Rovers  have 
arrived,  and  where  they  have 
no  Counter  party  and  can 
make  fuch  Reprefentation  as 
they  pleafe    to    the   General 


I, 


,  ^^^  ii||,|  I'linitfutig 


iiniff,imM 


ii:ra»« 


r       f  :>' 


(.86  ) 

there,  your  Vigilance  might 
effed:  a  great  deal  of  good  by 
tranfmitting  a  Letter  on  the 
fubjed:  to  him,  which  fhall 
alfo  be  done  here  when  an 
opportunity  offers. 

'J*  ^V*  *t*  *^  *^  'V  't*  *t*  "T" 

I  greatly  defired  that  the 
Ships  expeded  with  Negroes 
had  arrived,  in  order  to  enable 
me  to  fend  your  Honor  fome 
lufty  fellows,  but  none  have 
come  up  to  this  date,  although 
looked  for  every  day.  We 
muft  poftpone  doing  fo  until 
the  next  opportunity,  God 
willing. 


JOURNAL 


OF  THE  SLAVER 


Z\)t  2Lxms  of  3Cmfterdam 


AND 


HER  CAPTURE. 


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oft 
Jlerc 
van 
dam 
Affii 
arriv 


JOURNAL 


OF  THE  SLAVER. 


€l)e  Tivms  of  3lmfterDam, 


AND 


HER  CAPTURE. 

AULUS  Heyn  Ridder 
from  Staden^  aged 
about  51  years,  Pilot 
of  the  Ship  the  Arms  of  Am- 
JlerdafHy  and  Leendert  yacques 
van  Cuelen^  born  at  Amjler- 
dam^  aged  about  26  years, 
Affiftant  Commiffary,  who 
arrived  here  yefterday  from 
Virginia^  in  Mr.  Fofcom's  Bark, 
M 


If 


(  90  ) 

appeared  at  the  Meeting  of  the 
Diredlor  General  and  Council 
of  JVew  Netherkifid^  and  made 
known  and  declared  as  fol- 
loweth : 

That  they,  the  Deponents, 
fet  fail  from  the  Cajlle  del 
M'ma  on  the  21  ft  February 
laft  in  the  fervice  and  for  the 
account  of  the  Hon^^^  Incor- 
porated Weft  India  Company, 
Chamber  at  Amfterdam,  in 
the  Ship  the  Arms  of  Anijler- 
dam^  at  which  time  ya?i  Ger- 
rjtfen  Nuchteren^  who  died  on 
the  paflage  on  the  , 

was  Skipper,  with  orders  and 
command  from  the  Hon*"^^  Ge- 


'M  ., 


(  91   ) 

ncral  Jcin  Valckenburgh  to 
repair  to  Loango  in  Angola^ 
to  take  in  a  cargo  of  Slaves 
there,  and  convey  them  to  the 
111  and  of  Curaqao, 

April  1 5 .  Having  arrived  at 
Loango  and  taken  on  board  i  o  i 
head  ol  Slaves  there  for  account 
of  the  abovementioned  Com- 
pany, 

On  the  28th  of  faid  month, 
again  fet  fail  for  Curaqao. 

|une  20.  Sighted  Curaqao^ 
but  could  not  reach  laid  Ifland 
in  confequence  of  the  flrong 
Current  and  ftift*  EafI:  wind. 
Having  vainly  endeavored, 
during  three   days   and   three 


(    92     ) 

nights,  to  laveer,  and  Water 
beginning  to  get  very  low,  we 
were  neceffitated  to  change 
our  courfe,  and  thus 

July  2,  came  to  the  Salt 
ground  of  Caymany  which  is  one 
of  the  Cayman  Iflands,  where, 
whilft  engaged  in  taking  Water 
and  fome  Turtle  on  board,  on 

July  6,  about  noon.  Jive 
Ships  came  to  anchor  there; 
four  with  Englifh  flags  and 
one  under  Portuguese  colors, 
which  laft,  called  the  Maria 
of  London^  whereof  one  Robert 
Douwneman  was  Captain,  after 
fhe  had  taken  fome  hands  on 
board  from  the  other    Ships, 


(93  ) 

immediately  weighed  anchor 
again,  and  came  down  on  the 
Deponent's  Ship,  calling  out, 
'^  Strike  for  the  King  of  Por- 
tugal ;"  and  at  once,  without 
giving  time  to  ftrike,  fired  a 
{hotted  Cannon  and  a  difcharge 
of  Mufketry  killing  two  Ne- 
groes dead,  and  wounding 
one  Dutchman.  After  having 
thus  fired,  came  ftraight  on 
board,  feized  the  Ship  and 
Negroes,  forced  the  Crew  to 
go  to  the  Ship  aforefaid  and 
plundered  every  thing.  The 
Captains  of  the  four  Englifh 
Ships  abovementioned,  one  of 
whom  was  called  Captain  Gey 


■aL:atti!,';at.if#:i.a,"ju{„f^ 


!i  H] 


(  94  ) 

and  another,  Captain  Brom- 
7nert^  got  fomc  of  the  Negroes 
becaiife  they  had  furniilied  him 
men,  but  the  Deponents  do 
not  know  how  many.  After 
they  had  lain  there  fome  days, 
faid  Captain  having  firii:  dif- 
mantled  his  own  Frigate  fet 
her  on  fire,  and 

July  1 8,  liiiled  thence  with 
the  alorelliid  Ship,  The  Anns 
of  Ajujlerdam^  having  enlifled 
fome  of  the  Sailors,  giving  out 
that  he  intended  to  fail  to 
Montferrat  in  the  Caribbean 
Iflands,  but  as  the  Ship  was  a 
poor  Sailer,  and  Water  was 
fhort,  he  fet  fail  for  Virginia 
and  arrived 


\.  % 


tVi^ 


(95  ) 

September  lo,  in  the  Bay 
there. 

September  19,  arrived  at  Eli- 
zabeth's river ^  whenee  the  De- 
ponent went  to  Nancimo?i, 

Odober  6,  departed  thenee 
for  this  plaee  in  Mr.  Fofcojns 
J]ark,  and  arrived  here  yefler- 
day. 

All  which  they  declared  to 
be  true  and  truthful.  In  tef- 
timony  whereof  thefe  prefents 
are  ligned  by  them  in  Fort 
Anijlerdam  in  New  N ether - 
Z^W,thei3^^  O&oberA.''  1663. 


FINIS. 


i  I 


9 


APPENDIX. 


N 


(     )!• 


A 


C 


Dh 


[164 

be  p 
were 

that 
Ihall 


ADDITIONAL  PAPERS 


RELATIVi;    TO 


Cfje  ^Ube  Cralie 


UNDER  THE  DUTCH. 


DireElors    at    Amjlerdatn    to 
DireElor    Stuyvesant. 


'^ 


J{: 


* 


[1646.]  TTAVING  obferved  that 
in.  more  Negroes  could 
be  profitably  traded  off  there  than 
were  carried  thither  in  the  Ship 
Tamaridare,  we  fliall  pay  attention 
that  for  the  future  more  Negroes 
fliall  be  conveyed  thither. 


""••MtllMMMIH 


f 
I 


(     ICO    ) 

Bill  of  Sale  of  a  Negro, 

BEFORE  me  Cornells  Van 
Tlenhoven,  Secretary  of  Nnv 
Netlierla?tdy  appeared  Fredrick  Luh- 
berfen,  who  declared  to  have  fold 
unto  Richard  Lord,  a  Negro  named 
Anthony,  which  Negro,  he  the 
Grantor  hereby  conveys  and  tranl- 
ports  in  right  ownership  to  th 
abovenamed  Richard  Lord,  who 
fliall  be  at  Hberty  to  ufe  the  faid 
Negro  during  his  Hfe,  at  all  fuch 
work,  as  he,  Richard  Lord,  fliall 
think  proper.  He  Fredrick  Luh- 
berfen  declares  from  this  day  forward 
to  delifl:  from  all  property  in  the 
faid  Negro.  In  teftimony  whereof 
thefe  prefents  are  ligned  by  Fredrick 
Lubber/en  and  witnefs  hereunto  in- 
vited, 28th  9ber  1646. 

FRf:RICK   LUBBERTSEN. 
To  my  knowledge, 

CoRNELis  VAN  TiKNHOVEN,  Secretary. 
Adriaen  van  Tienh(  ven,  Witnefs. 


'jV; 


( 


101 


) 


)l  '  <l 


DireElors    at    A??tjierclam    to 
DireElor  Stuyvesant. 

EFFORTS  arejuft  now  making 
at  the  Hague  before  their  High 
Mightinefles  to  effed:  a  general  Re- 
tcrni  in  all  the  Colonial  pollelfions 
of  this  Company,  and  New  Nether- 
land  alfo  was  remembered  on  that 
occafion.  It  has  been  already  pro- 
vifionally  refolved  that  all  Colonirts 
of  that  Country  Ihall  be  empowered 
to  export  their  produ6ts  of  Flour, 
Fiili,  Beef,  Pork,  Peas,  Beans,  &c., 
in  their  own,  or  in  chartered  Shins 
to  Brajily  and  Angola ;  that  faid 
Ships  may  again  take  freight  from 
Brafil  to  this  Country,  but  that 
thofe  who  have  completed  their 
trade  in  Afigola  (liall  be  at  liberty 
to  convey  Negroes  back  home  to 
be  employed  in  the  cultivation  of 


iP'li 

i  i 
il     i 


I     ' 


'I 


(     102     ) 

their  lands.  By  this  refolution 
Your  Honor  will  obferve  that  we 
ourfelves  are  at  liberty  to  fend  a 
Ship  with  all  forts  of  Provifions  to 
Angola  and  to  convey  Negroes  back 
in  return.  Therefore  pleafe  to  em- 
brace this  opportunity  as  quickly  as 
poflible  with  the  Provifions  which 
you  fay  you  will  have  remaining. 
Amjierdam,  jth  April y  1648. 


DireSiors  at  Amjierdam  to 
the  Co7nmonalty  at  the 
Manhattans, 


* 


'^• 


* 


* 


* 


AND  in  order  that  you  may  be 
the  more  fully  allured  of  our 
good  intention,  we  do  hereby  con- 
fent  that  the  Commonalty  yonder 
fliall  have  liberty  to  repair  to  the 


M 

III*' 


(  I03   ) 

Coaft  of  Afigola  and  Africa^  and 
tranfport  thence  avS  many  Negroes 
as  they  will  make  ufe  of  for  the 
cultivation  of  their  Lands,  on  the 
Conditions  and  regulations  which 
are  fent  herewith  to  the  Dired:or. 

^  ^  ^  <•  'Y- 

Amjierdaniy  \th  April,  1652. 


Ifj 


Ml 


DireSiors    at    Amjierdam 
DireSlor  Stuyvesant. 


* 


* 


* 


* 


* 


to 


WE  have  by  contract  given  and 
granted  to  fome  private  Mer- 
chants permiffion  empowering  them 
to  repair  to  the  Coaft  of  Africa  to 
trade  for  Slaves  there,  and  to  carry 
and  convey  them  to  the  Weji  Indies 
and  the  Iflands  fituate  thereabout, 
aiid  as  we  expedt  that  the  aforefaid 


IWgl 


p 


(   i04-  ) 

Ships  or  foine  of  them  will  go  to 
New  Netherland  to  fell  their  Slaves 
alfo  to  the  Inhabitants  there,  in  fuch 
cafe  we  define  and  requeft  that  Your 
Honor  will  not  demand  any  Duties 
from  them,  but  lend  them  all  rea- 
fonable  AfTiftance,  in  order  to  the 
removal  of  every  obftacle  which 
might  prove  a  hinderance  to  Agri- 
culture. This  for  your  information 
and  notification.* 


* 


* 


* 


* 


* 


Amjlerdam,  this  6th  yunCy  1653. 

*  Note  by  Dr.  Vanderkemp.— Here  are  reported 
unquertionable  Fafts  that  the  Dutch  were  the  cliief 
Supporters  of  the  Slave  Trade,  ftatnping  their  Seal 
on  the  Declaration  of  one  of  the  Magiftrates  of 
Amjierdam  to  Prince  Frederick,  "  that  he  would 
fend  a  Cargo  to  Hell zx  tie  Rifk  of  fingeing  his 
Sails  if  he  were  fure  of  a  prolptious  Voyage." 


I1? 


(   '05  ) 

Refolution  of  the   AfTembly  of 
the  XIX. 

Mo  iday,  15  September^  ^^SS- 

THE  Committee  appointed  for 
this  purpofe  reports  with  re- 
gard to  the  Ninth  Article  relative 
to  Privateering,  as  the  refult  of  their 
deliberations,  that  the  Regulation  of 
the  year  1646  on  this  fubjed:  ought 
to  remain  in  force,  but  in  order  to 
encourage  Individuals,  in  this  cri- 
tical conjund:ure,  to  equip  Velfels 
to  annoy  the  Enemy,  it  might  be 
permitted,  befides  lowering  the 
duties  granted  in  1652,  that  the 
following  alterations  be  provifion- 
ally  adopted  : 


* 


* 


* 


The  Negroes   coming   in   prizes 
from  beyond  the  Seas,  and  nothing 

O 


I 


"'•'"ilMitlUil 


m.t 


umtmmm 


i? 


(  io6  ) 


the 

in 

the 


elfe,    may   be    exported,    with 
confent    of    the     Government 
Brazil,    to    all  fuch    places  as 
interefted  may  deem  proper. 

6. 

The  duties  which  the  Company 
receives  from  all  prize  goods  brought 
in  and  mentioned  in  the  aforefaid 
rule,  Negroes  included,  fliall  be 
reduced  to  fen  per  cent,  and  no 
more. 


DireElors    at    Ainjlerdam    to 
DireEior  Stuyvesant. 

*  *  :i^  :•:  :•; 

26.  \  FTER  clofmg  and  difpatch- 
^l\.  ing  the  duplicate  hereof 
which  goes  by  the  Ship  The  Black 
Eagle,  we  have  on  the  Petition  of 
fome  private  Merchants,  viz.,  Jan 


.1 


!i^(  i' 


(   J07   ) 

Siv certs  and  Dirck  Pietcrfcn  Witte- 
pacrt,  and  in  order  to  promote 
Population  and  Agriculture  there, 
coniented  and  allowed  that  they 
may  go  with  their  Ship  the  Wittc- 
pacrt  to  the  Coall  of  Africa,  and 
having  trafficked  for  Slaves  there, 
convey  the  lame  to  New  Netherla?id 
to  be  fold  to  the  Inhabitants  there, 
provided  that  of  the  Goods  and 
returns  proceeding  from  faid  Slaves, 
and  which  fhall  be  brought  back 
in  the  abovementioned  Ship,  there 
lliall  be  paid  to  the  Company 
the  lawful  Duties  fixed  thereon,  or 
otherwife  the  ordinary  Tonnage 
duty  according  to  the  regulation 
enacted  at  the  CoafI:  of  Africa,  at 
the  Company's  option,  as  appears  by 
the  annexed  extract  of  Refolutions 
adopted  on  the  19th  of  this  month. 

*  *  ^ii  :J^  * 

Amjlerdani,  2^1  November,  1654. 


;  J 


!     i 


\i     -■■ 


\l 


i  io8  ) 


Refolutmi  of  the  Anijlerdam 
Chamber^  of  the  Wejl  India 
Compa?iy. 

No.  26. 

Thtirfdayy  the  \L)th  Novcm-  ) 
ber,  1654.  j 

MR.  Jan  de  Sweerts  and  Dirck 
Pieterjen  Wittepaert  ap- 
peared before  the  Airembly,  and 
requefted  permiilion  to  proceed 
hence  with  their  Ship  the  Witte 
paert,  to  the  Coaft  of  Africa  for 
Slaves,  and  to  difpofe  of  thefe  in 
New  Netherlands  on  payment  of 
the  oramary  Tonnage,  or  the  Duty 
f  xed  therefor.  Queftion  being  put, 
confiderable  difcuffion  enfued,  and 
as  it  was  underftood  that  fuch  would 
tend  to  the  increafe  of  Population 
and  advancement  of  faid  Place,  the 


(   109  ) 

liime  was  confented  to,  on  condition 
that  the  Company  fliall  have  the 
option,  on  the  arrival  of  laid  Ship, 
which  muft  come  in  here,  to  col- 
led the  proper  Duties  of  the  Goods 
which  Ihe  is  to  bring  with  her,  or 
the  ordinary  Tonnage  duty,  accord- 
ing to  the  Regulation  enacSted  on 
the  Coafl:  of  Africa^  with  which 
the  abovementioned  MelP^  'yan  de 
Siceerts  and  Dirck  Pieterfen  Witte- 
pacrt  are  fatisfied. 


Ordinance  bnpofing  a  Duty  on 
Exported  Slaves. 

Friday,  6.  Augujl,  1655. 

WHEREAS  the  Direftor  Ge- 
neral  and    Council  of  New 
Nctherlafid  find   that   the   Negroes 


I      ! 


It: 


MMpHM 


nMv 


I   t 


i;..i  .1 


(    "o  ) 

lately  arrived  here  from  the  Hight 
of  Guhica  in  the  Ship  IVittc  Piwrt^ 
have  been  tranfported  and  carried 
hence  without  the  Hon'''^'  Conipaiiv 
or  the  Inhabitants  of  this  Province 
having  derived  any  Revenue  or 
benefit  therefrom,  the  Diredor 
General  and  Council  have  refolved 
and  concluded  that  there  ihall  be 
paid  at  the  General  Treafury  lo 
per  cent  of  the  value  or  purchafe 
money  of  the  Negroes  who  lliall 
be  carried  away  or  exported  from 
here  elfewhere  beyond  the  Juril- 
didtion  of  New  Nether  land.  Dated 
as  above. 

P.  Stuyvesant, 

NlCASlUS  DE    SiLLE, 

La  Montagne. 


( 


I  I  r 


) 


Rcfolution  of  the  DireSior  Ge- 
7ieral  and  Council  of  New 
Netho'land, 

Ttiefilayy  2\th  Auguji,  1655. 

THE  Petition  of  Edmund  Schar- 
hiirgh  being  read,  requelHng 
pcnniirion  to  depart  from  this  place 
to  Virginia  with  his  N^elfel  and  fome 
Negroes  he  has  purchafed,  this 
ApolHle  was  given  : 

The  Requeft  is  granted,  on  con- 
dition that  the  Petitioner  give  bail 
in  the  fum  of  five  thouiand  Pounds 
fterling,  not  to  enter  the  South  Bay 
or  River,  and  that  his  Crew  pro- 
mife  under  Oath  not  go  there,  nor 
communicate  any  intelligence  by 
Sea  or  Land  to  any  perfon  whom- 
foever.'-' 

''■'  Referring  to  the  Expedition  againll  the  Swedes, 
on  the  Delaware  River,  tiien  about  to  i'ail. 


t 


III  :i 


n  '1 


(     "2    ) 

Refo/ulion  of  the  Chamber  at 
A))ijlerdam» 

Monday,  yi.  April,  i^S^^- 

IT  being  reprefented  that  a  Ship, 
with  the  confent  of  the  Direct- 
ors of  Mcdcnblkk,  depending  on 
the  Chamber  of  Wcjl  Fricjland  and 
The  North  garter,  has  failed  to 
the  Coaft  of  Africa  for  Slaves,  with 
intention  to  fell  them  at  the  Illand 
of  Cura^aOy'^'  or  to  trade  them  on  the 
Main,  it  is  refolved  to  oppofe  the 
aforefaid  fale  or  barter,  and  to  write 
to  Vice  Director  Beck  there,  to 
detain  the  aforefaid  Ship  and  Slaves 
and  to  proceed  therewith  fo  and  in 


*  Curasao  was  cxclufivcly  luidor  the  Dircdlion  of 
the  Chamber  at  Amjlerdam,  and  it  may  be  inferred 
from  the  above  that  the  cxcliifivc  Control  of  the 
Dutch  Slave  Trade  was  alfo  veiled  in  that  Chamber. 


(   "3   ) 

fiuh  manner  as  he  (hall  find  con- 
lillcnt  with  law. 


Vice    DireSlor     i^i'X'K    to     the 
DireSiors  at  Amjiej^lam, 

Cura^aOy  1 1 .  J  tine  y  1 657. 

Honorable,   Refpedted,  Wife,  Pru- 
dent and  moll  Dilbreet  ^  Gentlemen. 

Gentlemen^ 

MY  laft  to  your  Honors  was  by 
way  of  the  Caribbean  IJlandsy 
which  I  hope  has  been  received 
long  ere  this.  Since  then  fafely 
arrived  here  the  Freight-boat  with 
thofe  who  were  commillioned  and 
Tent  for  purpofes  explained  in  our 
previous  difpatch,  from  this  place, 
to  the  Car  aquas,  the  principal  Capi- 
tal of  the  Main,  lying  neareft  this 


i? 


1^ 
I 


MllllllllOlill 


\l       • 


(   "4   ) 

Uland,  bringing  with  tlicni  the 
written  Aniwcr  ot  the  (Jovernor  of 
laid  locality,  who,  as  reprerenttd, 
was  favorably  inclined  to  what  was 
propol'ed  to  him  in  our  letter,  yet 
dared  not  manilell  ilich  in  public-, 
becauie,  as  he  alleges,  ot  the  Limits 
agreed  upon  ami  ee»ncluded  in  rhr 
Articles  or  'I'reaty  of  Peace  between 
his  lloyal  Maielly  ot  Spain  aiul 
their  High  Mightinelles  the  Lords 
States  (Jeneral.  The  original  Letter 
received  from  there,  nientioned 
abo.'c,  goes  herewith,  together  with 
the  Relation  and  Verbal  Report 
of  the  difpofition  in  which  our 
two  Coniniidioners,  who  were  fent 
thither,  found  them.  Neverthelefs, 
in  order  to  avoid  fufpicion  and  ar- 
reil,  and  on  account  of  fome  Ships 
lying  there,  they  did  not  Hiul  it 
expedient  to  deliver  the  principal 
and  feparate  Memorial  entrulled  to 


(  i'5  ) 

thcin  to  the  Clovcrnor  and  Chief 
Authorities  of  that  phice,  the  rather 
;is  no  occafion  or  opportunity  pre- 
fciiteil  itleh  ;  for  they  hail  not  heen 
tiirther  than  tlie  heacli  in  the  Ilarhor 
aiul  under  the  P'ortreis,  whence  they 
had  heen  again  dif})atched  without 
having  lieen  invitetl  to  Carafjuas^ 
the  Capital.  They  were,  however, 
by  order  aiui  command  of  the 
(lovernor  ot  Curafjiuis  courteoully 
entertained  hy  the  chief  oHicers  of 
the  Fortrefs  and  place,  of  the  Vil- 
hige  and  Harhor  where  they  lay 
iiiul  were  offered  every  thing  they 
ih)od  in  need  of  for  the  profecution 
of  their  Voyage  to  Eujtatius.  They 
report  that  they  have  had  many 
iii([uiries  and  folicitations  tor  goods, 
Inch  as  Silks,  Linens  and  Hats,  hut 
they  excufed  themfelves ;  trade  to 
their  Coafts,  Harhors  and  Territories 
not  heing  permitted,  they  dared  not 


If 


•«ii 


(   "6  ) 


bring  any  thing  with  thcni.  Hut 
on  the  other  hand,  if  they  had  an 
opportunity,  and  woidd  pleale  to 
conie  to  Ciira^iio,  to  purchal'e  Ne- 
groes and  Merchandize,  they  would 


I 


be  welcome  tnere  ana  accommo- 
dated to  their  iatisfa(^Ht)n  either  tor 
Specie,  Hides,  I'obacct)  or  other 
comr.iodities  laleahle  in  Europe. 
I'hey  had  communicated  to  divers 
individuals  the  Teparate  Memorial 
with  which  they  had  been  entrufled, 
and  had,  according  to  opportunity, 
divulged  it  to  them  as  amply  ami 
fully  as  was  in  their  power,  ami 
iHmulated  fome  thereby  to  fuch  w 
degree  as  to  create  hope  that  fonie 
time  or  other  it  will  produce  fruit. 
Your  ilonorscan  inform  yourfelves 
more  fully  on  the  lubjedl  by  refer- 
ence to  the  Reports  and  Doc 


lent  herewith. 


por 


:umeiits 


A  certain  Bifcayan,  an  inhabitant 


•(   '17  ) 

of  Car  aquas  had,  among  others,  an 
interview  with  our  Coniniiihoners 
aiul  gave  them  to  underiland  that 
he  had  a  new  Veiiel  on  the  (h)cks 
there  with  which  he  was  intending 
at  an  early  day  to  make  a  Voyage 
along  the  Main  from  Car  aquas 
hitherward,  to  certain  little  Ulands 
lying  in  the  neighhorhood  of,  and 
oppofite  Bonayrc,  near  the  Main,  to 
catch  Turtle,  and  exptdted  to  he 
engaged  there  three  weeks.  It  was 
his  intention,  according  to  circum- 
ihuices,  to  take  with  him,  as  a 
venture,  fome  Tohacco,  Hides  and 
other  wares,  in  order,  fliould  people 
come  there  to  trade  with  him  and 
bring  along  fuch  goods  as  would  he 
of  ufe  to  him,  that  he  would  have 
payment  ready  for  them,  and  alfo 
have  a  hetter  opportunity  to  con- 
verfe  ahout  other  trade. 

With  a   view,  therefore,   to   en- 


4 


It 

ii 


iMi 


i  n 


(  ii8  ), 

courage  thofe  people  more  and 
more  in  our  favor,  I  refolved,  upon 
the  abovementioned  Report,  by  ad- 
vice of  and  after  communication 
with  the  adjoined  Council  here,  to 
fend  one  of  the  Company's  Sloops, 
with  a  fmall  cargo  of  fuch  things 
as  we  could  obtain  here,  as  a  ven- 
ture thither.  I  found  laid  Bifcayan 
faithful  to  his  propofal  and  promife, 
only  he  was  prevented  bringing  any 
Hides  or  Tobacco  with  him,  by 
being  obliged,  by  the  Governor  of 
CaraquaSy  to  convey  fome  perfons 
for  the  King  to  Porto  Cabelho^  and 
in  order  not  to  create  anv  evil  fuf- 
picion  in  their  minds,  he  dared  not 
on  this  occalion  bring  any  thing 
with  him  in  his  Bark  except  a  little 
rough  Copper  or  Slacken  which  he 
exchanged  for  the  fmall  cargo  he 
befpoke  from  our  people,  and  fur- 
ther   made    a    Propofal   and    even 


(  "9  ) 

wrote  a  Letter  to  me  with  his  own 
hand,  the  original  whereof  is  an- 
nexed, to  purchafe  the  Company's 
Negroes,  that  is,  all  that  are  here  at 
prel'ent,  on  the  following  condi- 
tions, to  wit ;  That  the  Company 
(liall  have  a  Ship  with  their  own 
Crew  here  ready  for  the  Negroes 
to  embark  in,  and  when  refolved 
to  accept  his  offer,  to  let  him  know 
by  thofe  recently  with  him,  at  the 
place  defignated  by  him,  when  he 
will  without  lofs  of  time,  repair  in 
perfon  to  this  harbor,  and  enter  into 
an  Agreement  and  terms  for  what 
articles  and  at  what  price  the  Ne- 
groes (liall  be  delivered  at  the  place 
where  he  hopes  to  bring  them  in 
fafety  and  without  danger  ;  and  that 
he  will  not  receive  any  Negroes 
before  payment  for  them  fliall  be 
made  on  board  the  Ship,  and  he  or 
his  partner  fliall  remain  on  board 


If 


ttmmmu 


HMMMti 


;(  '■■ 


(     I20    ) 

the  Ship,  with  the  Negroes  until 
the  Conditions  and  Agreement 
which  will  be  made  here,  Ihall  he 
fully  carried  out. 

He  reports  that  the  place  to 
which  he  fays  he  will  convey  thcni 
is  on  the  North  fide  of  Cuba,  where 
the  (Spanifli)  Nation  has  no  Fortrcfs 
nor  means  to  prevent  the  projedt  or 
to  difturb  them  ;  alfo  that  he  uill 
leave  his  own  Coufin,  who  is  like- 
wife  related  to  the  friends  to  whom 
he  will  convey  the  Negroes,  here 
at  Curasao  as  a  Hoftage  and  fecu- 
rity,  until  it  be  manifeft  that  he 
fliall  have  performed  in  good  faith 
all  he  has  promifed ;  as  more  fully 
appears  by  the  annexed  Relation 
and  report  of  Cornet  Balthazar  Van 
EJs  and  'J  oh  an  Ro?n  bouts  on  the 
fubjed:.  He  has  requefted  an  an- 
fwer  to  this,  for  his  information.  I 
therefore  wifli  your  Honors'   early 


i!  -1 


(     121     ) 

Inllru6tions  hereupon,  as  to  what  I 
{hall  do,  or  omit  in  this  matter,  and 
that  in  the  meanwhile  I  may  re- 
ceive a  lupply  of  provilions  llithcient 
for  the  Negroes  to  enable  me  to 
wait  for  him. 


I  have  received  the  Agreement 
and  Condition  which  Your  Honors 
have  concluded  with  Mr.  Hetiricus 
Matthias,  merchant  of  Affi/icrdam, 
refpe(^Hng  the  Negroes.  On  look- 
ing and  reading  it  over,  I  find  it 
very  favorable  for  that  gentleman, 
wherefore  my  impreffion  is  that 
your  Honors'  intention  in  con- 
cluding it  is  to  begin  and  introduce 
the  trade  here.  I  Ihall  not  be 
wanting,  God  willing,  in  obeying 
and  executing  your  Honors'  or- 
ders and  Inftrud:ions  in  this  regard 
fiithfully  and  to  my  beft  ability. 
Meanwhile,  fliould  it  happen  that 

Q 


ili 


i  . 


(     122     ) 

Mr.  Hi'Tiricus  Matthias's  cxpct^k'il 
Ship  did  not  arrive  here,  as  it  has 
iu)t  yet  done,  I  (hall  expedt  your 
further  order  and  anlwer  whether 
we  'hall  dare  to  proceed  or  not 
with  the  Negroes  on  the  aforelaid 
Bii'cayan's  prefented  propolals  ex- 
tended as  ahove.  In  the  ilron<r 
hope  and  expectation  that  we  (hall 
be  ahle  to  open  a  trade  with  our 
ntareil  n-jighhors,  I  (liall  purchale 
on  your  Honors'  account  a  linall 
cargo  from  Skipper  Sif/ioti  Conic- 
lijlcti  Ciildc,  fo  that  they  may  at 
leail  tind  fomething  on  coming 
here ;  and  our  Velfels  on  palfniL;; 
near  Bonayrc  may  advife  the  Hil- 
cayan  and  the  other  Inhabitant 
already  mentioned,  what  goods  can 
be  purchafed  here  on  arriving, 
taking  afample  along  to  fliow  thci.i, 
Ihould  occalion  prefent,  and,  at  the 
lame  ^inie,  inform  the  Bifcayan  tliiit 


(    123    ) 

I  fiavc  not  received  any  orders  to 
allow  Negroes  to  leave  the  Uland 
until  payment  for  them  has  been 
niaiie,  and  that  I  (liall  let  him  have, 
with  ill  four  months  after  date,  a 
fuller  and  more  explicit  anfwer 
which  I  hope  I  (liall  receive  from 
your  Honors  in  the  meantime. 

1  am  confident  that  on  thefe 
Conditions  he  would  readily  give 
'Two  hiuidrcd  pieces  of  Eight  for  a 
merchantable  Negro  or  Negrefs, 
one  with  another,  whilft  he  gave 
us  to  underftand,  that  the  price  of 
Hides  would  be  Eighteen  (liillings. 


If 


(     '2+    ) 


Vice  DireEior  Beck  to  the  Di- 
reSlors  at  Anijlerdam, 

Cura^aOy  28.  July,  1657. 
Gentlemen. 


AS  I  advifed  your  Honors  in  my 
laft,  I  dilpatched  the  Freight- 
boat  to  the  appointed  and  prerixcd 
place  —  a  certain  Imall  Illand  near 
the  Main  —  to  the  Bilcayan  and  Tent 
him  word  on  the  fubjed:  of  his 
trading  for  Negroes,  as  I  had  in- 
formed your  Honors  more  at  large 
in  my  lafl.  Whereupon  he  refoh  ed 
to  viiit  this  place  in  perfon,  in  our 
aforefaid  Freight-boat  [Stygerjchiiit], 
He  was  accompanied  by  a  certain 
Padre,  named  Friar  Francis  to  pur- 
chafe  a  few  parcels  of  merchandize 
with  one  or  two  little  Negro  Girls. 


^e  Di- 

657. 

s  in  my 
^""reight- 
prctixed 
md  nt'cir 
and  lent 
;    of  his 
had  in- 
at  large 
reiblved 
in  our 
rfchuit). 
certain 
to  pur- 
;handize 
ro  Girls. 


(  125  ) 

I  alio  fold  to  the  ahovenamed  Bif- 
cayan,  a  fmall   Negro  Boy  with  a 
few  goods,  for  which  he  had  hrought 
with  him  fome  Hides  and  Tobacco 
in  our  aforefaid  Boat ;   thefe  are  fent 
herewith  as  a  fpecimen  by  the  Ship 
OJtr'ichy    the    price    of    the    Hides 
being  Fifteen  fliillings  each  and  of 
the  Tobacco  Six  pieces  of  Eight  the 
Arobe  of   Twenty  Jive    Pounds.     I 
have    fold    to    the   aforefaid   Padre 
Friar  Francis^  goods  to  the  amount 
of  Four   hundred   pieces   of   Eight 
and  two  little  Negro  Girls,  all  at  a 
fair  and  reafonable  price,  in  order 
to  encourage  and  Simulate  them  to 
come  to  thefe  Ports  to  trade,  which 
I  think  is  greatly  for  the  Company's 
intereft.     Wherefore,  I  let  the  Fa- 
drc  have  the  two  little  Negro  Girls 
{(I    One  hundred  and  fifty  pieces  of 
Eight  each,  which  together  amounts 
to  Three  hundred  pieces  of  Eight, 


MWMH 


MMtdAlkMM 


I'        i 


It. 


!       :^ 


T  ,. 


(  126  ) 

and  to  the  aforefaid  Bifcayan  a  little 
Boy  Or  One  hundred  and  tiventy 
pieces  of  Eight.  The  Merchan- 
dizes which  I  fold  them  were 
purchafed  from  the  bearer  hereof, 
Simon  Cor?ieliJlen  Glide y  Skipper  of 
the  Ship  OJlrlchy  exprellly  for  this 
purpofe  on  youi  Honors'  account 
before  their  arrival,  in  order  that 
our  neareft  Neighbors  on  coming 
here  may  at  lead  on  fiich  occafion 
find  fomething  for  the  aiking,  until 
your  Honors  might  fend  fuch  car- 
goes as  the  cafe  requires,  as  I  have 
partly  explained  in  my  laft. 

Although  the  abovementioned 
PadrCy  Friar  Yrancls,  did  not  bring 
with  him  any  payment  for  what  he 
purchafed,  yet  could  I  not  let  him 
go  away  empty  handed,  as  it  was 
the  iirft  time,  in  confequence  of  the 
converfation  and  verbal  Agreement 
entered  into  with  our  Commilfary 


(     127     ) 

and  Skipper  of  the  Freight-boat 
before  his  arrival  here  —  that  is,  to 
let  them  return  to  the  appointed 
place  with  what  they  had  purchafed, 
on  condition  that  they  (hould  not 
land,  much  lefs  receive  pollellion  of 
what  has  not  been  paid  for  here, 
until  they  have  made  payment 
th'-refor  to  the  Comniillary  and 
Skipper  of  the  aforefaid  freight 
Boat,  in  good  and  futiicient  Hides. 


.ji- 


With  regard  to  the  trade  in  Ne- 
groes, the  aforefaid  Bifcayan,  now 
here,  hath  given  me  fuch  explana- 
tions and  further  information  on 
that  point,  that  we  can  come  to 
no  other  conclulion  than  that  a 
good  and  favorable  refult  is  to  be 
expected  from  it.  He  hath  com- 
municated to  me  the  moft  diredl 
and  lliortelt  route,  how  and  in 
what  manner  not  only  a  ihipload  of 


V 

li'    ■  i 


(     '2.S    ) 

Negroes,  hut  llicccirively  a  cargo  of 
gooii  IlileaMc  Mcrclianciizc  bcruks 
con  111  he  traileil  ofK  Were  a  Sliip 
with  iiecellaries  in  the  harhor  luic, 
he  is  willing  on  receiving  notiic 
thereot  at  the  appointed  place,  to 
come  here  anil  enter  into  iinh 
agreement  with  the  Company  from 
which  as  he  (irmly  helieves,  he  and 
the  Company  would  derive  great 
advantau;e. 

I'he  place  the  Negroes  (houKl  Ik- 
conveyed  to  is  called  Por/o  I'r/o, 
the  thiple  place  oi'  trail':.  Perniil- 
lion  can  he  ohtained  to  dilpol'c  of 
the  cargo  freely  there  on  paying 
()//('  hundred  and  thirteen  pieces  of 
Eight  tor  each  Negro,  which  is 
the  Royalty.  But  llich  permi(lu)ii 
is  not  given  except  to  perlons  of 
their  own  Nation  ;  hut  it  can  be 
ohtained  under  the  pretext  that  they 
had   chartered    a    Dutch   Ship   and 


(    '29   ) 

Crew  to  fetch  ami  hring  over  the 
Nei^n-oes,  and  that  the  Negroes  and 
Merehaiidi/e  in  the  Shi[)  are  the 
property  ol    their  Nation. 

Such  is  the  manner  in  which  the 
alorelaid  liilcayan  wouhl  contra(^t 
lor  and  [nnchale  Negroes  from  the 
Company  on  the  following  Condi- 
tions:  That  he,  or  his  companion, 
w  ith  live  or  fix  more  ol  their  Nation, 
(hall  emhark  at  their  own  expenfe 
with  the  Company's  Skipper,  C'om- 
miliary.  Crew  and  MatrolTes  in  the 
Ship  lying   reaily  to   Tail  and  prole- 


cute   wi 


th    tl 


lem 


tl 


leir 


V 


o 


yag( 


to 


Porto  l^i'loy  and  alter  receiving  a 
permit  there  from  the  (jovernor, 
icll  the  Negroes  whicli  tliey  know 
they  can  fell  immediately  after  their 
arrival  at  fuch  a  high  price  that  the 
outlay  of  the  aforefaid    Jloyalty  in 


order    to   o 


ht; 


I  in 


le    Permit,   m 


ay 


be  ealily   repaid.     Therefore,   they 
R 


umAimm 


(    130   ) 

will  undertake  this  themfelves,  and 
pay  to  the  Company,  after  liife 
arrival  there,  for  each  Negro  and 
Negrefs  between  Eighteen  and  thirty 
years  of  age,  Two  hundred  Reals  or 
Pieces  of  Eight,  in  Silver  bars  or 
pieces  of  Eight ;  further  they  will 
be  able  to  obtain  there  a  proper 
permit  to  trade  then  to  other  places, 
to  load  the  Ship  with  fuch  cargo 
and  freight  as  the  countries  fupply 
and  are  moft  profitable  to  the 
country.  In  like  manner,  the  price 
for  the  Goods  being  agreed  upon 
and  arranged  here,  the  payment 
there  for  them  fliall  be  made  in 
the  fame  manner  as  for  the  Negroes, 
but  the  rifk  of  the  Sea  and  the 
expenfes  of  the  Negroes,  until  they 
arrive  at  the  above  place,  muft  be 
borne  by  the  Company,  but  when 
arrived  there,  they  will  be  refpon- 
fible  for  them.     For  the  full  per- 


\    f '  '^1' 


(  131  ) 

formance  of  the  Conditions  which 
fhall  be  made  here  on  the  part  of  the 
Company,  the  aforefaid  Bifcayan 
offers  to  ftake  his  Yiicy  and  even  to 
remain  here  in  perfon  in  the  Fort, 
or  to  leave  another  refponlible  per- 
fon here  in  cuftody  of  the  Company 
at  the  rifk  of  his  life,  if  any  fraud 
is,  or  has  been  intended  or  deligned. 
And  it  is  further  conditioned  that 
the  Negroes  in  their  minority,  as 
well  as  old  and  deformed  ones,  muft 
be  difpofed  of  at  a  fpecial  and  lower 
price.  On  thefe  terms  he  is  refolved, 
at  all  times  from  now  henceforth, 
whenever  a  Ship  with  Negroes  will 
be  ready  here,  at  the  time  and  place 
to  be  named  where  advice  is  to  be 
lent  him,  to  come  hither  and  with 
God's  merciful  help  faithfully  to  per- 
form whatever  is  abovementioned. 
The  other  Plan  or  propofal  men- 
tioned in  my  laft,  to  run  the  Negroes 


A  ii 


JMWMI— «MM|ltMllllllllllillll 


!  I 


(  132  ) 

in  at  the  north  fide  of  Cuba,  is  not, 
he  fays,  fo  feafible  as  this. 


\     ) 


Charter  of  the  Ship  Eyckenboom 
for  a  Voyage  to  Africa  and 
New  Netherlands 

IN  the  Name  of  the  Lord,  Amen. 
In  the  year  of  the  birth  of 
Our  Lord  and  Saviour  "Jcjiis  Chrili, 
1659,  the  25th  of  January,  be- 
fore me  Hcnrick  Schaejf]  admitted 
by  the  Court  of  Holland  a  Notary 
PubHc  reliding  in  Amjicrdam,  and 
the  underfigned  witnelfes,  in  their 
own  perfons  came  and  appeared 
Meifieurs  Edward  Man  and  Abra- 
ham Wilmerdoncx,  Directors  of  the 
Incorporated  Welt  India  Company 
at  the  Chamber  here  in  Amjierdam 


(    ^33   ) 

hereunto  authorized  by  the  Board 
of  their  AlTociates,  as  charterers  on 
the  one  part,  and  Skipper  J^m 
Jcinfe?i  Eyckenboom  of  Hooniy  Maf- 
ter  under  God,  of  his  Ship  named 
the  Eycktmboom^  long  I'^xx,  wide 
XXV  and  one  half,  hold  xi  and  one 
half,  over  it  five  and  one  half  and 
lix  feet,  with  a  half  deck  and 
forecaftle  on  either  fide,  and  the 
aforelaid  parties  declared  and  do 
hereby  declare  to  have  made  and 
concluded  together  a  certain  Con- 
trad:  for  a  charter  of  faid  Ship,  in 
the  form  and  manner  hereinafter 
defcribed.  To  wit : 

That  the  aforefaid  Skipper  fliall 
be  bound  immediately  to  deliver 
his  aforefaid  Ship  here  in  the  City 
fitted  out,  tight,  well  caulked,  and 
provided  with  good  and  fufficient 
anchors,  cordage,  tackle,  fails,  run- 
ning and   ftanding  rigging  and  all 


I 


r 


MMMMiM 


I'l 


>v_.  ■■! 


!'■■  :) 


(      13+     ) 

Other  neceflaries  and  appurtenances 
thereunto  belonging,  and  the  liune 
to  mount  with  Ten  good  pieces  of 
Cannon,  with  the  requilite  powder 
and  fliot  and  other  ammunition  in 
proportion,  but  the  necelfary  con- 
ilimption  of  powder  and  fliot  afure- 
laid  fliall  be  made  good  by  the 
Company,  which  Ihall  aUb  put  on 
board  faid  Ship  in  addition  to  the 
Tt'fi  pieces  aforelliid  as  many  other 
guns  as  they  pleafe  and  can  conve- 
niently place,  and  (liall  provide  and 
pay  the  expence  of  the  powder  and 
Ihot  therefor,  on  condition  that  in 
the  necell'ary  confumption  thereof, 
the  aforefaid  Skipper  fliall  bear  the 
contingent  of  his  Ship  aforefaid; 
that  further,  faid  Company  fliall 
man  faid  Ship  with  fuch  and  lb 
many  hands  and  provide  them  with 
fuch  flores  as  faid  Company  will 
pleafe   and   think   proper.     Which 


!  \} 


(  135  ) 

being  done  on  the  one  fide  and  the 
other,  the  aforefaid  Ship  flrall  on 
the  part  of  laid  Company,  be  laden 
with  a  full  and  fuitable  cargo,  or  to 
fiich  extent  as  faid  Company  fliall 
think  proper ;  being  laden  with  all 
fuch  goods,  wares  and  merchandizes 
as  they  will  determine,  the  aforefaid 
Ship  Ihall,  with  the  firft  fair  wind 
and  weather  that  God  will  grant, 
be  difpatched  and  fail  from  this 
country  dired:  to  the  Coafi:  of  y^f- 
rica  and  run  along  faid  Coafi:  from 
above  downward,  or  from  C\ipe 
Verd  down,  and  touch,  trade,  lie 
and  remain  at  all  trading  ports  and 
ports,  according  to  the  pleafure  of 
laid  Company  and  their  Commif- 
fary,  unto  the  Caftle  St.  George  d'el 
Mina^  where  they  fliall  receive  or 
tind  orders  from  the  Company's 
Diredor  General  and  Council  or 
Ihall    be  firniflied  with    them    on 


'  I-. 


I  ft ,. 


I  . .  V  , 


(   '36  ) 

failing  hence;  And  lail  towards  the 
Bight  of  Guitica  and  touch  ami 
trade  at  all  other  places  lying  therein 
ac  "ordinr,  to  the  ord^r  which  Ihall 
b  J  given  him  by  the  Diredor  Cie- 
i-eral  or  here  ;  from  thence  proceed 
fui  her  to  the  Illands  of  Ciira^ao^ 
Bonaire^  and  Aruba  in  the  U'cji 
Indies,  and  alfo  to  New  Netherlands 
and  all  round  every  where  elfe  the 
Company,  or  its  Minilfers,  (hall 
determine  and  order,  and  likewife 
at  all  laid  quarters  and  places  trade 
and  traffic  Goods,  Wares  and  Mer- 
chandizes and  alfo  take  in  people, 
load  and  unload  at  the  pleafure  of 
the  aforefaid  Company  or  its  Min- 
ifters ;  And  to  that  end  fail  to  and 
from,  run  hither  and  thither,  an- 
chor, lie,  load  and  unload  at  laid 
Coafts,  Quarters  and  Places  as  often 
and  as  frequently  and  fo  long  as  the 
fervice  of  the  Company  fuch  fliall 


(    KU   ) 

deinar  i ;  Furthermore,  i  eturn  and 
c^nie  thence  to  thi^  city  Anillcnlam 
or  the  def^'ned  port  of  difcharge, 
and  on  her  fate  return  and  arrival, 
there  difcharge  and  dehver  to  the 
aforefaid  Company  her  laden  return 
cargo  and  goods.  Which  done, 
there  fliall  he  paid  to  him  the 
Skipper  for  the  contradled  freight, 
every  month,  the  fum  of  Eight 
hundred  guilders  of  xx  iHvers  each, 
on  condition  that  the  Company  is 
bound  for  the  term  of  Six  fucceliive 
months  or  longer,  to  he  calculated 
according  to  the  length  of  time,  all 
current  months  according  to  the 
Ahnanac,  to  run  and  commence 
when  the  Ship  (hall,  in  the  profe- 
cution  of  the  Voyage,  reach  the 
Sea  outfide  the  laft  buoy  of  the 
T('Av/,  and  to  expire  when  flie  fhall 
arrive  and  calf  anchor  before  this 
city  of  Affijierdani  or  her  delHned 

S 


-\  *  ,,'  1 


"."SM 


I     i 


(    138    ) 

port  of  difcharge,  payable  xiiii  days 
(a  three  weeks  after  the  aforeliiid 
difcharge  here,  hefides  average  and 
pilotage  according  to  the  cuilom  of 
the  Sea,  and  over  and  above  alio 
Hat  money  for  the  abovenanicd 
Skipper  at  the  Company's  difcrc- 
tion.  And  faid  Skipper,  with  and 
befides  the  Company's  Crew,  iliall 
alfo  make  the  Voyage  with  tlic 
aforeiaid  Ship  in  order  to  look  to 
faid  Ship,  her  appurtenances,  (5cc., 
making  ufe  of  the  Company's  ftores, 
but  the  monthly  pay  or  wages  not 
being  at  its  charge ;  And  he  lliall 
be,  over  and  above,  fubjed:  to  the 
orders  and  infl:ru(ifions,  articles  and 
other  rules  of  the  Company  during 
the  Voyage,  no  more  nor  lefs  than 
it  he  had  been  fworn  to  obferve  the 
lame,  they  being  taken  as  inferted 
herein,  and  efpecially  alfo  in  regard 
to    particular   or   private  forbidden 


(   139  ) 


ti;uliFig,  in  rtiippiiig  or  conveyance  of 
particular  or  private  goods,  nierchan- 
di'/es  or  wares,  on  pain  according 
to  the  aforefaid  Articles,  Orders  and 
Iiiilrudtions  of  the  faid  Company. 
The  ahovementioned  Dire(^l:ors,  par- 
ties hereunto,  pledging  for  the  pay- 
ment of  the  aforefaid  contraded 
monthly  or  freight  moneys,  average 
aiul  pilotage,  their  private  perfons 
and  property,  and  the  aforefaid 
Skipper,  fpecially,  alfo  his  perfon, 
Ship,  appurtenances  and  contrad:ed 
freight  moneys,  and  generally  all 
his  other  property,  real  and  perfonal, 
prefent  and  to  come  without  any 
exception,  fuhmitting  the  fame  to 
the  Court  of  Holland  and  all  laws 
and  judges,  all  aboveboard.  Done 
at  Amjierdam  in  the  prefence  of 
Cryn  van  Sev enter  and  Marten  He- 
gcrvelty  free  citizens  [poorters)  here, 
witnelfes  hereunto  invited. 


««<i*> 


M     ..I 


(   HO  ) 


Bill  of  hadbig  of  Negroes, 

IJafi  Pii'tcrfcn  o\' l^ockuf/iy  Skipper 
'  under  (Jod  of  my  Ship  iianuil 
the  SjuTa  Mundiy  now  lying  ready 
heture  Curacao,  with  the  Hrll  lair 
wind  which  (iod  (hall  vouchl'afc, 
to  Tail  to  Nt'iv  Ncthcrlandy  where 
my  correc^t  unloading  Ihall  take 
place,  acknowledge  that  I  have 
received  under  the  deck  of  my 
aforelliid  Ship,  from  you  l^rijus 
BruyHy  to  wit.  Five  Negroes,  whereof 
one  is  a  Negrels,  all  dry  and  well 
conditioned,  and  marked  with  the 
annexed  mark.  All  which  I  pro- 
mile  to  deliver  (if  God  grant  me  a 
fafe  Voyage)  with  my  aforelaid  Ship 
at  A^.  Nctbcrland  aforelaid,  to  the 
Hon^^''^  Diredor  General  Pctrm 
Stuyvcjanty  or  his  Fador  or  Dcpu- 


( '+•  ) 

tics,  on  payment  for  the  freight 
ot  the  ahove  defcrihecl  goods,  at 
the  difcretion  of  the  laid  Director 
(Jcneral,  and  for  the  performance 
hereof,  I  hind  myfelf,  and  all  my 
giiods  and  my  aforefaid  Ship  and 
appurtenances.  In  vvitnefs  of  the 
truth,  I  have  figned  three  Copies 
hereof  with  my  name,  all  of  the 
liune  tenor,  the  one  heing  latisHed, 
the  others  to  he  void.  Written  at 
Curai^ao  the  24th  day  of  Aiignjl^ 
Anno  1659. 

Jan  Pieters  Gros 

of  Dockiun. 


««•« 


(    H2    ) 


rice  Dirctfor  Hixk  to  Dirctlor 

S  rUVN'I'.SANI'. 

I  lonor.iMc,  Valiant,  Will-,    Piiulcnt 
ami  moll  Diicrcct  Sir. 

*svv, 

INOW  traiiiinit  to  your  Ilonor 
iliiplicatcs  of  what  I  have  al- 
rcaily  lent  hy  thcCJaliot  Nc-w  /Ifiijlcl, 
Skipper  .liigulli/ins  I Iccr/fidnSy  ami 
it  will  he  very  agreeahle  to  nie  it  I 
may  he  inlornieil  hy  the  earlitil 
opportunity  of  their  Ipeedy  and  iaic 
arrival.  I  woukl  not  forego  the 
prelent  tavorahle  occaiion  and  (Op- 
portunity of  the  Ship  Sprra  M/o/di, 
"Yif/i  Pii'trrfcn  Skipper,  to  accjuaiiit 
you  oF  the  circunithmces  ol  tliis 
Illand  up  to  the  prelent  time  ((Jod 


(    '+.!    ) 


h'etlur 


1659. 
PruiU'iit 


[•acquaint 
of   tliis 
|nc  (Cod 


lu'  prailcd!)  in  regard  to  tin*  (^)in- 
iiuirc  with  our  iicarc-ll  Nciglihors. 
llitlurto  thrrc  liavc  not  I)cl'Ii  im- 
portc'il  as  many  goods  as  the  dcinaml 
rcc]iiircs,  and  clpccially  the  trade  in 
Negroes  at  this  place  whith  tlie 
Company  hath  relerved  to  itleU,  or 
life  all  are  lolii. 

'I 'here  are  lying  here,  at  prefent, 
t\\")  Ships  ready  to  (ail  hence  tor  V\\- 
therland,  whith  oeeiipy  my  whole 
time,  lo  that  I  have  not  much 
Icilure  to  write  to  your  Ilonor  at 
kiigth.  The  one  is  the  Company's 
Ship  called  the  I\ ///g  So/o///of/,  \wh\ch 
arrived  here  on  the  2d  ot  July  from 
(juincii,  with  Three  hiuidrcd  and 
thirty  one  Slaves.  Of  theie  I  have 
Told  300  {a  One  hundred  and  Jif'ty 
pieces  of  I^ight  each,  to  a  certain 
Spanilh  trader  whom  I  am  daily 
c\pec^ting  to  come  here  and  receive 
them,    which    I    with    may    occur 


<il»>MIKiWnwiii  iMKii  ii'W'WuwuMWatitoii 


(    H4-   ) 

before  the  departure  of  the  aforc- 
faid  two  Ships  in  order  to  he  ahle 
to  tranlinit  the  proceeds  to  the 
Lords  Mailers. 

Ffdfick  Briiyn.  purchafed  out  of 
the  aforefaid  lot  of  Negroes  lor 
your  Honor,  Two  l^oys  and  a  (Jirl 
who  go  over  in  this  Ship.  I  have 
done  every  thing  pollihle  to  protec^t 
tlieni  againil  the  cold.  Vraiick 
Bruyn  hath  alio  purchai'ed  Two  for 
Com  miliary  Van  Briigb,  who  like- 
wii'e  go  by  this  conveyance  {)n 
i'aid  Commilfary's  account.  \'uLir 
Honor  will  pleai'e  to  have  ilich  pay- 
ment collected  therefor  from  laid 
Fcm  Br?/g/j  for  the  Company,  as 
you  will  coniider  jufi:.  Commiliary 
Laurens  van  Riiyvcn  hath  alio  pur- 
chai'ed  Two  young  Negroes  here  for 
account  of  his  brother  the  Secretary 
ot  your  Province,  at  the  iame  price 
as  the  lot  ibid  for  here,  viz.,   One 


atorc- 
bc  aMc 
U)    the 

out  of 
•Qcs  lor 
i  ii  (liii 

1  have 
)  protcd 

Uniiick 
'Two  for 
ho  hkc- 
iince  on 
t.  Your 
iich  pay- 
rom  laid 
ipany,  iis 
mmilVarv 


ime  pl- 


ain 


(   i45   ) 

hundred ■xw'X  fifty  Patacoons/''  T 
llill  in  daily  expectation  of  a  Ship 
with  Negroes.  I  willi  they  were 
come,  even  were  they  a  thoufaiul 
head.  I  expec':f  the  ahovenien- 
tioiied  merchant  here,  as  already 
Ihited,    to    take    awav  thofe    of  the 


'iZ. 


A7//i^-  Soloui'ju.  lie  is  well  able  and 
will  eagerly  buy  the  whole  lot  at 
once. 

I  have  received  orders  from  the 
Lords  Maflers  to  lend  your  Honor 
againll  the  Spring,  Ibme  fiftcoi  or 
fixtccn  Negroes  whom  I  coidd  have 
calily  dilpatched  now,  but  we  have 
no  coarle  cloth  to  clothe  them,  and 
are  fearful  that  they  will  not  be 
able  to  endure  the  Winter  there. 
As  Negroes  will  be  plenty  here  in 
future,  I  thought  it  beff,  according 
to  orders,  to  poitpone  fending  them 

A  S[\inilli  Coin  ot   the  \'aluc  ol  $1.04. 

T 


(   h6  ) 

until  the  Spring,  when  I  fliall  he 
fending  a  young  Negro  Girl  for 
Mr.  Augujiinus  Hecrmans  according 
to  his  requell.  Meanwhile,  I  hope 
to  receive  for  my  inftrudion,  your 
Honor's  advice  and  order  as  to 
whether  you  will  require  any  nie)re 
Negroes  than  the  above,  and  of 
what  age  and  in  what  numbers  you 
wilh  them  fent. 


1659.  December  26,  Diredor 
Stuyvefafif  writing  to  the  Diredors 
at  Holland  fays : 

"  The  Negroes  purchafed  at  Cu- 
rasao for  fli^o  (a,  150  and  paid 
for,  cannot  be  fold  here  (at  New 
Amjlcrdam)  again  at  that  price, 
either  in  Beaver  or  Tobacco,  lb 
that  all  the  expences  of  going  and 
returning  are  entirely  loft." 


(   H7   ) 


Vice  Diretior  Beck  to  the 
Dlre&ors  of  the  IVeJl  hidia 
Co?npa?iy, 

CuragaOy  \th  Feb.^  1660. 

Noble,  Honorable,  Refpeded,  Wife, 
Prudent  and  moll  Difcreet 
Gentlemen. 

Gentlemen^ 

MY  lart  to  your  Honors,  dated 
5.  January,  as  per  copy  en- 
cloled,  was  by  the  Ship  Gideon, 
Skipper  Simon  Cornelijjen  by  way  of 
the  Caribbean  IJlands. 

You  will  learn  from  my  lafl:  let- 
ters, and  from  the  annexed  papers 
Tent  again  herewith,  the  fate  of  the 
Ship  St.  John,  which  was  due  here 
from    Guinea   with     Negroes,    and 


iiMjiniiiiiiiiifiiiiiiiiiiiiii 


-"-'— "-'-^-'■^rl'tirr 


(   h8   ) 

which  according  to  your  Honors' 
orders  was  to  replace  the  Ship  Dic- 
nicn  liere.  What  caules  us  molt 
grief  here  is,  that  your  Honors  have 
thereby  loll  ilich  a  tine  lot  of  Ne- 
groes and  fuch  a  fait  failing  Bark 
which  has  been  oui  right  arm  here.  •• 
Although  I  have  llrained  every 
nerve  to  overtake  the  Robbers  ot 
the  Negroes  and  Bark,  as  Ihited 
in  my  lall,  yet  have  I  not  been 
as  fuccefsful  as  I  wilhed.  I  iliall 
communicate  the  particulars  to  your 
Honors,  God  willing,  by  the  Ship 
*SV.  George^  which  is  about  to  fail  di- 
red:  from  hence  this  month.  If  no 
remedy  can  be  found  to  prevent  fuch 
Robberies,  and  villainous  crimes  as 
the  carrying  away  of  the  Company's 
Slaves  and  Bark,  and  no  profecution 
and   redrefs   follow,   they    will    not 


*  Sec  Journal  and    Papers  in    firlt   Part   of  this 
Volu.nc. 


"m. 


,f!': 


(    H9   ) 

only  peiiift  therein,  hut  even  ftrike 
terror  into  the  Spanilh  merchants 
who  come  here  to  trade. 

Incloled  herein  goes  a  Minute  of 
what  I  have  provilionally  judged 
nccellary,  with  the  advice  of  the 
Council,  to  he  done  againll  them. 
Cc^.py  thereof  has  heen  furniihed  to 
Sifnon  Corneli[j'e  Giliit\  to  he  ufed  hy 
him,  according  to  circumlhmces. 
And  although  my  zeal  he  hearty 
and  fmccre  to  purfue  fuch  Rohbers, 
and  as  much  as  pollible,  to  repair 
and  make  good  your  Honors'  lolfes, 
yet  have  I  been  fcrupulous,  as  I  did 
not  wifli  to  do  too  much  or  too 
little.  Therefore  do  I  refpedtfuUy 
folicit  your  Honors  to  fupply  me 
herein  with  fuch  orders,  ample 
advice  and  power,  that  I  may  fet 
to  work  and  execute  them  unfcru- 
puloully  againfl:  limilar  and  fuch 
like  Robbers,  when  occalion  offers, 


P'**'*tlW!ya»llJi!lW!iTO'*'''WiJJii<J^  .^ 


( 150 ) 

fo  that  others  may  take  example 
therefrom.  Had  we  had  here  a 
fail  railing  Yacht  of  fourteen  guns, 
manned  in  proportion,  we  might, 
without  doubt,  have  overtaken  and 
again  recovered  by  force  or  \Nith 
good  right,  the  aforefaid  Negroes 
and  Bark,  and  it  grieves  us  that  w  c 
for  want  thereof  could  not  carry 
out  our  good  intentions. 

We  regret  exceedingly  that  fuch 
Rovers  Ihould  have  been  the  caul'e 
of  the  ill  fuccefs  of  the  zeal  we  feci 
to  attradt  the  Spanifh  traders  hither 
for  your  Honors'  benefit,  by  previ- 
ous notices  and  otherwife,  for  the 
augmentation  of  Commerce  and 
the  fale  of  the  Negroes  which  are  to 
come  here  more  and  more  in  your 
Honors'  Ships  and  for  your  account. 
What  is  lawfully  done  by  Englilli 
Ships  with  regular  orders  and  Com- 
miiiion  againll  their  Enemies,  even 


(   '51   ) 

the  Spaniih  Nation,  and  not  againfl 
us,  we  mufl:  tolerate;  but  when 
mo\\  of  the  damage  is  inflicted 
without  lawful  order  and  Commif- 
lion,  not  only  on  the  Spanidi  Nation, 
but  even  on  ourfelves,  it  ought  not 
to  be  tolerated,  and  ihould,  by  all 
ways  and  means,  be  driven  from 
the  Sea. 

I  have  witnelled  with  pleafure 
your  Honors'  diligence  in  providing 
us  here  from  time  to  time  with 
Negroes.  That  will  be  the  only 
bait  to  allure  hither  the  SpaniOi 
Nation,  as  well  from  the  Main  as 
from  other  parts,  to  carry  on  trade 
of  any  importance.  But  the  more 
llibtly  and  quietly  the  trade  to  and 
on  this  Illand  can  be  carried  on,  the 
better  will  it  be  for  this  place  and 
yours. 

•;:  :Y-  •■■■  •■■  ■■: 


»mm  iiiniMipiiipii  win 


(  '52  ) 

Inafinuch  as  Mr.  Gyjhert  ilc  Rofd, 
who  is  with  me,  is  authorized  In 
the  private  perfons  interelled  in  the 
Ship  Hope  to  apply  to  the  Governor 
of  the  Hii'vana^  by  whom  we  under- 
ftand  the  Rover  has  been  arrellcd, 
and  to  that  end  have  fent  to  nic 
fuch  papers,  letters  and  proofs  as 
may  ferve  for  the  recovery  of  fiid 
Ship  and  cargo,  neverthelefs  up  to 
this  time  have  we  had  no  opportu- 
nity to  effed:  the  work  accordini:; 
to  our  good  inclination,  except  that 
Mr.  Gyjhert  de  Rooja  has  recently 
fent  his  Yacht,  The  Toiing  St.  Paul, 
with  a  cargo  to  St.  "J ago  de  Cuba, 
by  which  we  wrote  conjointly  a 
letter  to  the  Governor  at  Havanna 
to  be  fent  to  him  overland  from 
Ciiba^  to  give  faid  Governor  fonie 
premonition,  until  a  more  favorable 
opportunity  fhall    prefent   itfelf  to 


(   '53   ) 

carry  out  your  Honors'  intentions 
and  tliofe  of  the  private  friends  who 
are  intereiled, 

I  Hr(t  received  the  contract  en- 
tered into  hy  your  Honors  with 
Meir--^  Ht'dor  Pictcrfcn  and  Giiil- 
laumc  Moffif/ia,  hy  the  Ships  Gideon 
and  Lovl\  after  the  Negroes  that 
had  come  hy  the  Ship  King  Solomon 
had  all  been  fold,  and  although  the 
Ship  Eyckenhoom  has  not  yet  arrived, 
two  Spaniih  Vellels  with  a  Yacht 
from  Cadi'z  have  caft  anchor  in  this 
port  on  the  2d  January.  They  are 
come  purfuant  to  exprefs  orders  to  the 
Captain  of  the  aforefaid  Veifel  Pedro 
Sorilho  by  name,  for  the  purpofe  of 
taking  away  thofe  Negroes,  accord- 
ing to  contract ;  and  Skipper  Ewoiit 
Jan/hi  has  exhibited  thofe  orders 
to  me,  and  this  gave  me  to  under- 
lland,  that  in  cafe  they  Ihould  leave 
here  without   Negroes,   the  whole 

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(  15+ ) 

object  of  their  Voyage  would  be 
thereby  fruftrated,  and  they  (hould 
in  confequence  fuffer  excelVive  dam- 
ages. I  found  myfelf,  therefore, 
obHged  to  foHcit  as  well  the  free- 
men as  the  Company's  fervants,  to 
loan  from  their  Plantations  to  the 
Company  as  many  Negroes  as  they 
could  polfibly  fpare,  under  the  pro- 
mife  that  good  flout  Negroes  fliould 
be  returned  in  their  ftead,  out  of 
the  firfl:  lot  which  would  come  for 
the  Company.  In  this  way,  what 
with  the  Cape  Verde  Negroes,  and 
thofe  of  the  Company  and  of  pri- 
vate individuals,  I  have  colleded 
together  with  great  trouble  Sixty  tico 
head.  As  there  were  among  them 
fome  old  and  fome  young,  two  were 
dedudled  for  them,  as  appears  by 
the  original  Receipt  tranfmitted 
herewith.  They  have  accordingly 
paid  me  here  for  Forty  Jix  head,  as 


(  155  ) 

per  contract,  (tl  One  htimlred  and 
twenty  pieces  of  Eight,  amounting 
to  Five  thou  I  and,  five  himdred  and 
twenty  pieces  of  Eight,  leaving 
Fourteen  head  of  Negroes,  for  which 
the  aforefaid  Meir"^^  HeBor  Pieterfen 
and  Guillaume  Momma  are  to  pay 
your  Honors  in  Holland,  as  is  more 
fully  fet  forth  in  the  receipt  to 
which  for  brevity  fake  I  refer. 

*  ;•:  :•:  :•:  :•: 

The  aforefaid  Captain,  highly 
gratified  and  contented,  failed  from 
here  with  his  two  Ships  on  the 
15th  January  for  Forto  Bello,  as  he 
informed  me. 

jf;  ^J;  :i:  :i:  •<: 

I  received  by  the  Ship  Gideon, 
from  Cape  Verde  only  Twetity  eight 
Slaves,  old  and  young,  as  appears 
by  the  receipt  delivered  to  the 
Skipper.  In  confequence  of  their 
condition    and    age,    they    are    not 


't^^-fifiii^m>mii^M,>iLm:jgu«*m^ 


m 


(  X56  ) 

worth  fo  much  as  the  Negroes 
lately  brought  by  the  Kifig  Solomon. 
But  I  have  fince  been  informed 
that  if  a  handfome  lot  of  Negroes 
could,  when  opportunity  offers,  be 
imported  from  that  place,  thofe 
would  proportionably  advance  in 
price. 

What  your  Honors  recommend 
to  me  in  regard  to  Privateers, 
that  they  Ihall  not  be  allowed  to 
come  here  or  hereabouts,  I  have 
fully  communicated  to  our  oppofite 
Neighbors,'-'  and  to  the  Spanilh 
Nation  in  other  places.  Few  Pri- 
vateers will  come  into  our  harbor, 
becaufe  they  know  that  they  are 
fufpefted  here,  unlefs  they  come  into 
port  in  numbers  under  one  pretence 
or  another,  to  fee  if  they  cannot 
obtain  fome  advantage  over  us  for 
purpofes  of  plunder,  as  the  Rovers 


*  That  is  in  Venezuela  and  the  Spanifli  Main.   Ei>. 


(  157  ) 

have  indeed  threatened  us.  Though 
well  on  our  guard  here  againft  them, 
vet  mufl:  our  defence  depend  on 
human  hands  in  fuch  circum fiances. 
The  reinforcement  your  Honors 
have  now  fent  in  the  Ship  Love  is 
not  fufficient  to  oppofe  a  great  force, 
becaufe,  on  the  other  hand,  as  many 
of  the  old  Soldiers,  whofe  time  is 
expired,  are  going  away  as  nearly 
balance  the  reinforcement  jult 
arrived. 

With  fo  few  men  we  cannot  re- 
lift  any  evil  difpofed  Spaniards,  if 
they  rtiould  have  any  bad  defign  in 
their  heads,  and  be  as  ftrong  as  the 
two  Ships  which  lately  arrived  here 
in  our  Harbor  with  full  Two  hun- 
dred and  Jifty  hands.  The  fame 
holds  good  in  regard  to  the  French 
and  Englifh  Privateers,  who  here- 
tofore have  vifited  our  Harbor,  and 
we  place  as  little  confidence  in  the 


■immmi3^mi!>.sjA^>^>. 


( 158 ) 

one  as  in  the  other.     The  Spaniards 
feeing  that  we  are  fo  weak,  can  <ret 
up  one  pretext  or  another,  efneciallv 
thofe  who  come  from   Spain,  who 
look  on    this  trade  with  a  jealou^ 
eye.      For,  Ibme   Merchants    who 
arrived  in  this  port  with  the  atore- 
laid    two    Ships,    have,   as     I    am 
informed,  alleged   here  to  one  and 
another,  that  the  Trade  which  we 
carry    on    here    with    the    Spanilh 
Nation  on  the  Coaft  or  elfewhcre, 
would  not  be  permitted  in  Spuin, 
and   fuch   a  prohibition  would  he 
ilfued  that  no  Spaniard  belon'nii'f 
to  any  place  would  dare  to  come 
hither    for    the   purpofe    of  trade. 
On  the  other  hand,  I  have  under- 
ftood   from    the    Captain    himlldf, 
that   they  are  confident  the  Trade 
here  will   fiourifh  more  and  more, 
and   he   hoped   that    his  Ship,  the 
St.    Catharijie,  would    return    here 


(  '59  ) 

ill  tour  months  with  Three  to  Four 
thoujand  ip'iQCt^  of  Eight  to  purchale 
Neirroes  and  Merchandize.  This 
was  confirmed  to  me  by  the  Dutch 
Skipper  Ewout  Janferiy  in  cale  they 
arrive  fafe  at  Porto  Bello,  The 
Spanifh  Frigates  which  have  been 
previoully  here,  and  trade  to  New 
S/ydifiy  have  aHb  told  me  the  fame 
thing,  and  faid  that  they  came 
yearly  from  New  Spain  up  to  Ca- 
raccaSy  with  confiderable  cafh  to 
trade  there  for  Cocoa  and  Mer- 
chandize, and  that  they  then  would 
leek  a  pretext  to  touch,  on  their 
way  from  Caraccas,  here  to  pur- 
chafe  Negroes  and  ftock  goods. 


{  i6o  ) 


Receipt  of  Pedro   Diez  Trox- 
xiLL A  for  Slaves. 

I     UNDERWRITTEN,    herchy 
)     acknowledge  to  have  received 
from    the    Hon^^'^    Mathias    Beck, 
Governor  over  the  Curat^ao  Illiiiids, 
Sixty  two  Slaves,  old  and  young,  in 
fulfillment  and  performance  of  the 
Contrad:    concluded    on    the    26''' 
June,  A"   1659,   by  Meff'-s  Hechr 
Pieters    and     Guilliamme    Momma, 
with  the    Lords    Dired:ors    at  the 
Chamber  at  Avijlerdatn  ;   and  as  the 
Negroes  by  the  Ship  King  Solofim, 
were  difpofed   of,  long  before  the 
arrival  of  the  underfigned,  and  the 
Ship  Eyckenboom^  mentioned  in  the 
aforefaid  Contrad:,  has  not  arrived 
at    this    date,    the    faid    Governor 
has  furniflied  me,  the  underfigned, 
with  the  abovementioned  Sixty  tn^^j 


7Z  Trox- 
es, 

N,    hereby 
ve  received 
thias    Beck, 
li^ao  I  Hands, 
d  young,  in 
lance  of  the 
)n    the    26^1' 
[eff'^s   Hcclor 
tne    Monwui, 
aors    at  the 
I ;  and  as  the 
King  Solomon, 
g  before  the 
rned,  and  the 
ioned  in  the 
5  not  arrived 
lid    Governor 
underfigned, 
Ined  Si^ty  m 


(   ^6i   ) 

Slaves,  and  on  account  of  the  old 
and  young  which  are  among  the 
aforefaid  Negroes,  has  allowed  a 
deduction  of  tivo  Negroes,  fo  that 
there  remain  Sixty  head  in  the 
clear,  for  which  I,  the  underligned, 
have  here  according  to  Contract, 
paid  to  the  Governor  aforefaid  for 
Forty  Jix  head,  (<(  One  hundred  and 
t\venty  pieces  of  Eight,  amounting 
to  Five  thoujandy  five  hundred  and 
ticcnty  pieces  of  Eight.  Whereas, 
Fourteen  Negroes  remain  ftill  to  be 
paid  for,  according  to  Contract  in 
Holland  by  MeiT"^^  Heaor  Pieters 
and  Qui  I  lame  Monwia  in  Amjlerdam^ 
to  Melf''^  the  Direcflors  aforefaid,  on 
prefentation  of  this  my  receipt,  to 
which  end  three  of  the  fame  tenor 
are  executed  and  ligned  in  the 
prefence  of  two  underligned  truft- 
worthy  witneifes,  whereof  the  one 
being  fatisfied  the  others  are  to  be 

W 


(   i62   ) 

void.  Curasao  in  Fort  Amjlcrdani, 
the  ii^'»  Jatiuary,  A''  1660.  It 
being  underrtood  that  the  above 
Fourtem  Negrots,  to  be  paid  for  in 
Amjlerdamy  fliall  not  be  charged 
higher  than  according  to  Contrad 
(a,  Two  hundred  and  eighty  Guilders 
each,  amounting  together  to  T^hrcc 
thoufand,  nine  hmidred  and  twenty 
Carolus  Guilders.     Dated  as  above. 

Pedro  Diez  Troxxilla, 
EwouT  Jansen. 

WitneiTes, 

NiCOLAES  HaECK, 
L.  V.   RUYVEN. 


(   i63  ) 


DlreEior  Stuyvesant  to 
Dire&or  Brck. 


Fice 


Anijlenlam  in  New  Net  her  I  and y 
I J  February y  1660. 

*  *  '■■  :•:  :•: 

FOUR  Negro  Boys  and  otie  Ne- 
gro Girl  have,  as  you  advifed, 
been  Tent  to,  and  received  by  me  '^ 
the  Ship  Sphera  Mtmdi ;  3  on  mine 
and  2  on  Commilfary  Vati  Brugge's 
account,  their  price  being  left  to 
our  dilcretion.  Upon  this  fubjedt 
I  muft  fay,  that  the  allignment 
fent  to  me  by  Frans  Bruyn  is  un- 
figned.  However,  in  order  to  avoid 
any  difficulty,  I  left  this  time  the 
choice  to  the  CommiiTary  who  took 
the  Negro  Girl  and  one  of  the 
iloutefl  Boys.  But  greater  diffi- 
culties   have    arifen    in    this   wife: 


t  I 


!V 


i  1 


iMmm 


''.$ 


(    '6+  ) 

One  of  the  Five  died  on  the  pailage 
hither;  Ibme  were  lick  or  have 
become  ih  after  arrivi'-g.  To  pre- 
vent any  iiiilunderrtandlng  in  future, 
the  fold  Negroes  ought  to  be  con- 
ligned  to  the  purchafer  by  their 
names  or  marks. 

As  regards  the  price  which  was 
left  to  our  difcretiou,  in  order  to 
prevent  any  fufpicion  of  felf  inte- 
reilednefs,  I  willi  your  Honor  to 
inform  me  after  the  others  have 
been  fold,  what  price  they  brought. 

I  have  obferved  by  your  defpatch 
to  the  Hon''''-'  Diredtors,  dated  3 
September^  forwarded  by  the  Ship 
Sphera  Miindi  the  26  December 
laft,  that  the  Negroes  were  fold  to 
M""  Cortt  van  Ool  (<i  140  pieces  of 
Eight,  viz.,  from  40  to  16  years; 
from  16  to  12  years,  three  for  two; 
under  i  2  years,  two  for  one. 

We  hope  and  truft  that  by  com- 


(   '65   ) 

plying  with  fiich  price  and  terms, 
wc  ihall  avoid  all  fiifpicion  of  Iclf 
iiitcrcil.  I  am  willing  to  take  my 
lliare  of  the  expence  and  riik  oftheir 
pallage  hither,  hecaufe  I  deli  red 
the  Negroes  for  my  own  fervice 
and  the  promotion  of  Agriculture, 
not  in  the  expedation  of  any  gain, 
and  therefore  fent  for  young  ones, 
in  which  regard  the  worthy  In- 
habitants, Chrillians,  and  thofe  of 
tht;  Hon^^''^  Company,  ought,  I 
think,  to  he  preferred  before  Span- 
iards and  unbelieving  Jews. 

You  will  fee  by  the  enclofed 
extracts  from  my  letter  covering 
yours  to  the  Hon^^'*-'  Direiftors,  what 
I  have  propofed  to  them.  It  is 
therefore  delirable  and  fomewhat 
necelfary  that  a  lixed  price  (hould 
he  fet  on  Horfes  conveyed  hither, 
or  ordered  from  Ciira^ao^  by  private 
perfons,  as  well  as  on  Negroes  as 


M^fsi^m:^ 


[  it  .■ 

4,  . 


(  i66  ) 

far  as  practicable,  according  to  their 
ability  and  age,  becaufe  the  one  as 
well  as  the  other  are  mofl:  urgently 
required  here  for  purpofes  of  Agri- 
culture and  its  advancement,  and 
finally  would  tend  to  the  greater 
advantage,  trade  and  profperity  of 
the  Hon^^i'^  Company  and  its  ftib- 
jeds. 

*  *  :;:  if;  ^j; 

In  regard  to  th?  Negroes  which 
the  Hon^^''^  Diredors  ordered  to  be 
fent  hither,  they  ought  to  be  ftout 
and  ftrong  fellows,  fit  for  immedi- 
ate employment  on  this  Fortrefs  and 
other  works;  alfo,  if  required,  in 
war  againft  the  Wild  Barbarians, 
either  to  purfue  them  when  retreat- 
ing, or  elfe  to  carry  fome  of  the 
Soldiers'  baggage;  it  being  very 
apparent  that  we  fliall  be  con- 
ftrained  to  wage  a  righteous  and 
offenfive  War  again  ft  them,  for  the 


it\\ 


(   >67  ) 

peaceable  pofTeffion  once  of  the 
Land,  and  the  avenging  of  numer- 
ous fuffered  affronts  and  murders. 
An  important  fervice  would  be 
conferred  on  the  Company,  on  us 
and  the  Country  if  there  were 
among  the  fold  Negroes,  fome  of 
experience  who  had  redded  a  cer- 
tain time  at  Curacao. 


Dire&ors   at   A7njlerda7n   to 
DireSior  Stuyvesant. 

Amfterdam^  the  ()th  Marchy  1660. 


* 


* 


NOW  as  regards  the  trade  in 
Slaves,  or  Negroes,  which  the 
Inhabitants  there  at  Curasao  might 
purfue,  that  is  permitted  to  them 
as  to  other  Merchants,  with  the 
underftanding,  however,  that  it  is 


-d»mmHimm*tim 


(   '68   ) 

not  to  be  at  a  lower  price,  for  the 
reafon  that  the  Company  here 
would  thereby  be  ferioully  preju- 
diced. But  as  Agriculture  there 
would  be  beneficially  promoted 
by  Negroes,  and  the  advancement 
thereof  is  of  great  importance, 
and  the  profperity  of  that  State 
is,  for  the  moft  part,  dependent 
thereon,  we  have,  therefore,  con- 
cluded and  even  refolved  to  try 
an  experiment  with  a  parcel  of 
Negroes  which  we  fliall  have  con- 
veyed to  your  Honor  by  the  rirll: 
opportunity  which  a  Ship  or  Ships 
may  offer  from  Curasao.  Thefe 
Negroes  (hall  then  be  publicly  fold 
to  the  highefl  bidder  there,  on 
the  exprefs  Condition,  neverthelefs, 
that  they  (hall  not  be  removed 
thence,  but  be  employed  in  culti- 
vating the  Land.  To  this  end,  an 
exadl   regifter  fliall    be   made  and 


(   i69  ) 

kept,  as  your  Honor  will  fee  by 
the  accompanying  form  of  the 
iiforelaid  Conditions. 

*  *  :i:  :i:  :•: 


ki 


Propofed    ContraEi   to    unport 
Slaves  into  New  Nethe?^la?id, 

THIS  day,  the  underfigned  Di- 
redor  and  Council  of  New 
Nctherlafidy  thereunto  authorized 
by  Refolution  of  the  Chamber  at 
A/nJicrdam^  on  the  one  part,  and 
the  Owners  of  the  Ship 
whereof  is  Skipper,  burthen 

about  Tons,    on    the    other 

part,  have  agreed  and  contracted 
that  a  Permit  and  Commiirion  in 
due  form  (hall  be  granted  to  the 
aforefaid  Skipper,  to  buy  Slaves, 
and  further  to  profecute  fuch  ad- 
vantage as  faid  Owners  fliall  deem 

X 


t  i. 


,  I; 


',  I    ''' 


(  170  ) 

expedient  on  the  Coaft  of  ylfrica ; 
in  like  manner  to  return  here  to 
the  Manhattans  with  the  laid  Slaves 
and  their  further  cargo,  provided 
neverthelefs  that  they  fliall  not  be 
at  liberty,  in  regard  to  the  Coail  of 
Africa,  to  refort  on  the  granted 
Permit  to  the  Gold  Coaji,  and  there- 
fore not  to  go  Wefterly  further 
than  Ardre  or  at  mod  to  Popo,  on 
pain  of  the  lofs  of  the  Ship  and 
Goods  laden  therein,  to  which  end 
the  Directors  and  Council  fliall  be 
at  liberty  to  place  a  Supercargo  on 
board  faid  Ship,  (whom  the  Skipper 
fliall  be  bound  to  entertain  in  the 
Cabin,)  and  if  neceflary  to  caufe 
the  People  therein  to  be  Iworn  ;  for 
which  aforefaid  Permit  and  Com- 
miflion  the  aforefaid  Owners  pro- 
mife,  on  the  return  of  the  laid 
Ship  and  before  her  difcharge, 
promptly  to   pay   to   the   Diredor 


(  i7>   ) 

and  Council  aforefaid,  or  their 
deputies,  a  duty  of  Fifteen  Guilders 
for  each  Negro,  without  making 
any  exception  or  objedion  thereto. 
Under  bond  of  their  perfons  and 
Goods,  none  excepted,  with  renun- 
ciation of  benefit  ordinis  divi/ionis 
ct  excuffiofils,  having  entire  know- 
ledge thereof  Done  New  Amjler- 
dam  this 

Remonjlrance  on  the  preceding 
propojed  ContraSi. 

Honorable,  Wife,  Prudent  Lords, 
Petrus  Stuyvefant^  Governor  Ge- 
neral, and  the  Councillors  o^ New 
Netherlands  Curasao  and  Depen- 
dencies thereof. 

Hofiorabky 

THE  Underfigned  Burghers  and 
Inhabitants  of  this  City  New 
Aiujlerdaviy  your  Honors'  liege  Sub- 


(     172     ) 

je6ts,  moft  refpedtfully  reprefent 
that  they  are  inclined  to  a  foreis^n 
Trade,  and  efpecially  to  the  Coalt 
of  Africay  according  to  the  Con- 
cellion  of  the  Hon'''""  Directors 
granted  in  the  year  1652,  as  a 
fpecial  privilege  to  the  Inhahitants 
of  this  Place,  in  order  to  fetch 
thence  Slaves  and  other  Wares 
might  be  difpofed  of  here  and 
elfewhere,  whereby  this  City  and 
the  entire  Country  would  increalc 
and  profper  in  Merchandize,  Com- 
merce, Population  and  more  elpe- 
cially  in  the  Tobacco  Trade,  to 
the  advantage  not  only  of  thele 
Inhabitants,  but  alfo  of  the  Hon'''^" 
Weft  India  Company  which  would 
behold,  in  time,  a  vaft,  populous,  and 
rich  commercial  Province  fpring 
up  in  thefe  parts  therefrom. 

But  it  has  appeared  to  them  that 
thofe    who    would     execute    with 


(  17.5  ) 

Skipper  or  Merchant  going  to  that 
Country  a  Draft  of  Partnerfhip, 
which  is  hefet  and  pinched  by  fuch 
precife  Conditions,  would  rifk  their 
lives  and  Goods,  and  at  heft  gain 
nothing,  or  run  the  rifk  of  having 
Ship  and  Goods  contifcated.  For, 
hefides  the  entire  of  the  Gold  Coaji 
being  excepted  in  that  Conceffion, 
it  appears  that  Cape  Verde,  Siera 
LeoJidy  the  Greyti  (Pepper)  and  ^la 
^^la  Coaft  are  alfo  excluded ;  for 
it  is  not  permitted  to  refort  further 
Weft,  at  fartheft,  than  Popo  Sonde. 
Moreover,  the  Go/d  CoaJi  which 
from  Cape  Apolonia  to  Cape  des 
Rodes  or  Mount  Berique  is  reckoned 
60  leagues,  can  be  extended  much 
further,  as  will  be  feen,  to  any  place 
where  Gold  may  be  found.  And 
lis  regards  Slaves  ;  for  each  head  1 5 
Guilders  muft  be  paid,  and  then 
the  payment  for  them  in  Tobacco 
or    Beaver,    is    again    taxed    when 


(   '7+  ) 

rtiipped  to  Fatherland,  which 
iiiipofes  too  heavy  a  burthen  on 
this  hazardous  Trade. 

The  Hon'"'^'  Company,  in  the 
meanwhile,  mull  perceive  that  our 
Neighbors  the  French,  Engl  if  li, 
Swedes,  Danes  and  Courlandcrs, 
are  by  means  of  the  Netherlaiui- 
ers  who  repair  to  them,  trading 
along  the  entire  Coaft,  even  un- 
der their  ilrongholds,  without  any 
proht  being  derived  therefrom  by 
the  Company  ;  Yea,  they  llitfer 
rather  very  ferious  lols  thereby,  as 
is  manifert  from  the  example  of 
Arcnt  de  Groot  who  in  the  Year 
1 638,  built  a  Fort  at  Cormantyn  for 
the  Englilh,  and  of  Hendrick  Cacr- 
lojf\  the  former  Fifcal,  who  built 
another  at  Cape  Corfe  in  the  Year 
1650,  for  the  Swedes. 

Your  Honors'  fubjecSts  palling 
by  thefe  ftrongholds,  take  another 
courfe  and  as  faithful  fubjedls,  ad- 


(  175  ) 

drcfs  themfelves  to  you,  humbly 
praying  permiHion  to  trade  free 
and  unobftrudted  in  Ship  or  Ships, 
along  the  whole  of  the  Weft  Coaii 
of  Africa,  that  is,  from  Cape  Vcrd 
to  Lapc  Lopes  a  Gonjahey  in  all 
Bays,  Rivers  and  Coafts,  without 
any  exception,  the  Hon'"'^'  Com- 
pany's ftrongholds  alone  excepted, 
according  to  the  Rules  and  Orders, 
on  payment,  either  here  or  in  Hol- 
land, of  fuch  moderate  duty  as  (hall 
be  agreed  on.  This  doing,  6cc. 
(Signed) 

CoRNKLIUS  StKKNVVYCK, 

Maktkn  Kri:(;ii:r, 

ThKMOTHI'US     (jABRIE, 

Oi.oFF  Stkvenskn, 

GoVKRT  LoOC(^KRMANS,    ^ 

Jacob  Stryckkr. 
P.  L.  Vandk  Grift, 

PlETER  RUDOI.PHUS, 

Hendrick  Jansen  Vanuer  V'ier, 
Peter  Couwenhoven, 
Jacob  Steendam, 
Johannes  Verveelen. 


(  '76  ) 

The  preceding  Petition  bciii[r 
read  and  conlidered,  the  follovviii'r 
Apoftil  was  annexed  thereto  : 

The  Director  General  and  Coun- 
cil confider  themielves  unqualified, 
without  the  previous  knowlcdi^a* 
and  approbation  of  their  Supe- 
riors, the  Lords  Dired:ors  of  the 
Incorporated  Weft  India  Company, 
Chamber  at  Amjlcrdaniy  to  grant 
any  further  enlargement  than  the 
Ad:  herein  mentioned  implies.  The 
Petitioners,  therefore,  muft  make 
application  on  the  fubjed:  to  that 
Board.  Done  Fort  Amjlerdam  in 
New  Netherla?id^  3d  May,  1660. 


Bill  of  Ladi?tg  of  Negroes, 

I  UNDERWRITTEN  Janjan- 
>    fefi  Eyckcfihooniy  Skipper  under 
God  of  my  Ship  called  the  Eyck- 


w 


(    «77   ) 

cnhoom,  lying  at  prelcnt  in  the 
Harbor  of  the  Illand  of  Curasao, 
rciuly  to  iail  for  Neiv  Netherlands 
hereby  acknowledge  to  have  re- 
ceived in  my  Ship  aforefaid  from 
the  Hon'^l^"  Vice  Diredtor  Matthias 
Beck  for  account  of  the  Ilon'^''^ 
Company,  Twenty  head  of  Sound 
Slaves  or  Male  Negroes,  whom  I 
undertake  and  promife  to  deliver 
after  the  profperous  and  fafe  arrival 
of  my  Ship  in  New  Netherlands 
unto  the  Hon'^'^"  Dire(5lor  General 
and  Council  there,  firll:  acknow- 
ledging to  have  executed  triplicate 
Receipts  therefor,  one  of  which 
being  fatisfied,  the  others  (hall  be 
void.  Curasao  in  Fort  Anijierdaniy 
the  8  May,  A«  1660. 

Jan  Janse  Eyckenboom. 


(   i7«  ) 


DireElor    Stuyvrsant    to    the 
DireFiors  at  Anijlerdain, 

Amjlcrdam  in  New  Netherlands  \ 
25  y////t',  1660.  j 

***** 

WE  are  this  inftant  informed  liy 
a  Fiiherman,  that  the  (laliot 
Neiv  Amjlel  is  in  light  with  another 
flute  with  Horfes  and  Negroes 
from  Curasao.  We  ihall  comnui- 
nicate  to  your  Honors  hy  the  Hrft 
opportunity,  perhaps  the  Ship  Faith, 
what  intelligence  we  receive  from 
there,  and  in  the  mean  time  will 
execute  your  orders  as  to  the  llilc 
of  the  Negroes. 

:i:  :i:  :•:  :f:  :\% 

The  Flute  already  mentioned, 
which  arrived  here  from  Curacao 
with  the  Galiot  is  named  the  Eyck- 


(   '79  ) 

cnhoofiiy  and  was  difpatchcfi  i6  or  17 
months  ago  in  the  Icrvicc  and  pay 
of  the  Company  to  Guinea^  and 
thence  with  Negroes  to  Curui^ao. 

*  *  :::  :|:  Jj: 

Nineteen  Negroes  arrived  here  in 
the  fame  Veliel ;  the  twentieth  died 
on  the  Voyage.  The  remainder 
are  in  tolerahle  health. 


DireElor  Stuyvksant   to   Vice 
Dire&or  Hkck. 

Amjlerdam  in  Neiv  Netherlands  ) 
5  y^^^>  1660.  ] 

s}i  jfJ  =5^  -i^  ■f'- 

IN  refped:  to  the  Three  Negro 
Boys  received  hy  the  Ship  Sphera 
Mnndiy  they  will  be  accepted  on 
the  fame  terms  as  thole  lb  told 
Fan  0/en.  You  will  pleale  to  enter 
them    on  our    account    there,  and 


!■  J' 


i^ 


\ 


f0litltlatilHm^MimimmiMmmmi*im 


I? 


(  i8o  ) 


offlet  them  againft  what  has  been 
heretofore  delivered  out  of  our 
corcal  to  the  ftore  there. 

Nineteen  of  the  20  head  of  Ne- 
groes which  your  Honor  fent  on  the 
Company's  account,  have  arrived 
in  tolerable  condition  and  health. 


It  has  pleafed  the  Hon^^^^  Com- 
pany, on  our  propofal  tranfmitted 
by  the  Ship  Sphera  Miuidi^  in  regard 
to  the  trade  in  Negroes  and  the 
equalization  of  duties  between  the 
two  Conquefts,  to  write,  on  the 
firft,  in  order  to  make  no  alteration 
to  the  Company's  prejudice  in  the 
Negro  trade  at  Ciira^ao^  that  they 
had  refolved  for  the  promotion  of 
Agriculture,  to  fend  thence  hither 
a  good  number  of  Negroes,  to  be 
fold  to  the  Inhabitants,  on  condition 
that  they  Ihall  not  be  tranfported 
elfewhere,  believing    that,  by  this 


(   i8i 


method,  the  Hon^'l'^  Company  will 
Hitter  lefs  lols  and  the  People  reap 
greater  benefit.  The  efFed  hereof 
we  (hall  leave  to  time. 


Btll  of  Lading  of  Negroes, 

T  UNDERWRITTEN  Dlrck 
1,  Janjhi  from  Oldeiibiirch,  Skip- 
per under  God  of  my  Ship  named 
the  New  Netherhnid  Indian,  at  pre- 
fent  lying  in  the  Harbor  of  the 
Illand  of  Curasao,  ready  to  fail  to 
New  Netherlands  hereby  acknow- 
ledge to  have  received  from  the 
Hon^le  Vice  Director  Matthias  Beck, 
for  account  of  the  Hon^^'^  Com- 
pany, Ten  head  of  Sound  Slaves  or 
Male  Negroes,  whom  I  undertake 
and  promife  to  deliver,  after  my 
llife  arrival  with  my  Ship  in  New 
Netherla?id,  to    the  Hon'^'^'  Diredor 


iMliMM 


(  182  ) 

General  and  Council  there,  firil: 
figning  three  Receipts  of  the  fiime 
tenor,  of  which  when  one  is  fatis- 
fied  the  others  are  void.  Curasao, 
in  Fort  Amfterdam,  the  3 1  ft  Aiignjl^ 
A"  1660. 

DiERCK  Jans. 

1 66 1.  July  21.  A  fimilar  Billof 
leading  for  40  Slaves,  confifting  of 
15  Men,  14  Women,  6  Boys  and 
5  Girls,  to  be  delivered  in  A^ru; 
Netherland. 


Permit  to  export  a  crazy  Ne- 
gro to  Virginia, 

THE  Petition  o^  Samuel  Edfal, 
letting  forth  that  one  of  the 
Negroes  purchafed  by  him  on  the 
8th  of  Odober  laft  at  public  Auc- 
tion   from    the    Director    General 


(  i83  ) 

and  Council  is  unfit  to  perform 
any  fort  of  work,  as  he  is  fome- 
times  not  in  his  right  mind,  and 
requefting  permiflion  to  fend  him 
to  Virginia,  being  read  and  con- 
fidered,  it  is  Apoftilled  — 

The  Petition  is  granted  on  con- 
dition that  the  Petitionee,  when 
opportunity  offers,  Oiall  import  or 
caufe  to  be  imported  into  the 
Country  another  in  rtead  thereof. 
Done  2oth  January,  1661. 


DireElors     at    Ajnfierdam    to 

DireElor  Stuyvesant. 

Amjhrdatn,  1 1  ///  April,  1 66 1 . 

Honorable,  Prudent,  Valiant,   Be- 
loved, Faithful. 

THE   bearer   hereof  has  fafely 
handed  us  your  Letter  of  the 
9th   ultimo,  which   came    by  way 


(   i8+  ) 

of  New  and  Old  Englmid.  The 
Necelfaries  required  therein,  not 
ah-eady  lent,  (liall  be  forwarded  to 
you  in  the  Veilels  now  lying  ready 
to  fail  dired:  thither. 

This  goes  by  way  of  Ctira^-ao, 
And  as  we  have  obferved  by  the 
enclofures  thereof,  that  the  greater 
portion  of  the  Slaves  conveyed 
thither  by  the  Eyckenhoo7n  and  Ncii^ 
Netherla?id  hidian,  have  been  fold 
at  a  fair  price,  we  have  written  to 
Vice  Diredor  Beck  at  Curacao 
herewith,  and  ordered  him  to  pro- 
vide you  with  a  frefli  fupply  by 
every  opportunity.  We  have  done 
this  the  rather,  becaufe  we  have 
refolved  not  only  that  Slaves  Ihall 
be  kept  in  New  Netherlands  as  we 
have  heretofore  ordered,  but  be 
moreover  exported  to  the  Englilh 
and  other  Neighbors.  This,  how- 
ever, on    condition    that    on    fuch 


(   '«5  ) 

occiilion  there  lliall  be  paid,  on 
each  exported  Negro,  a  duty  of 
T'i.vo  Beavers,  which  is  a  Iniall  and 
light  import. 

The  reafons  which  have  led  us 
to  the  adoption  of  llich  Refolution, 
are,  among  others  none  of  the 
fnvallelt,  the  promotion  both  of 
Aii;riculture  and  Trade  in  thofe 
Parts,  as  herefrom  a  greater  fre- 
quentation  of  the  water  communi- 
cation betwen  New  Nctberland  and 
Curacao^  muft  necelfarily  follow, 
and  tend  accordingly  to  their  prof- 
perity.  Thus  the  one  will  be 
hipplied  and  provided  with  necef- 
laries  by  the  other,  which  is  a 
matter  of  great  conlideration  in 
regard  to  foreign  Polfeirions. 

As  your  Honor  obferves,  our  zeal 
and  care  for  the  welfare  of  New 
Netherlands  fo  muft  you  endeax'or 
to  retain  us  therein  and  confequently 


(   i«6  ) 

not  fail  to  fend  us,  from  time  to 
time,  fiich  returns  as  may  accrue 
there  from  the  lale  of  the  Slaves, 
in  which  cafe  we  (liall  not  neglec^t 
to  have  your  Honor  fupplied  with 
others  hy  every  opportunity. 

Herewith, 
Honorable,    Prudent,   Valiant,   He- 
loved,  Faithful,  co»nmending  you 
to  God's  protedlion  we  remain, 
The    Dirediors   of  the  Weft   Intliu 
Company,    at    the    Chamber    of 
Amjlcrdani, 

C.    WiTSEN, 

Edward  Man. 


(  "Sy  ) 


e  remain, 


DireBor  Siuyvksant  to    Vice 
DireBor    Hkck. 

Honorable,    Wife,     Prudent,    right 
Difcreet  Sir. 

YOUR  welcome  Letter  of  the 
31  rt  of  Augiift  of  hill  Year, 
was  handed  to  us  in  due  couri'e  hy 
the  Bearer,  in  which  is  hrll  men- 
tioned the  unfortunate  lofs  for  the 
Company  on  the  Horfes  lent  hither 
in  the  Ship  Eyckoihoom  and  (ialiot 
New  AmJicL  You  Honor  will  learn 
from  the  annexed  return  of  the 
public  fale,  what  they  brought  here 
in  confequence  of  their  emaciated 
appearance  after  having  been  re- 
frelhed  during  two  or  three  months. 
We  have  had  better  luck  with 
the  few  Slaves  fent  hither  at  the 
fame  time.  They  were  fold  to  the 
highell  bidder,  chiefly  at   Beaver's 


(    '«8   ) 

value,  which  differs  Httle  from 
Silver  pay.  I  have  retained  Ionic 
of  the  befltbr  the  Company.  One 
with  another  they  brought  about 
//.  440--'  a  head,  lels  the  freight. 

On  this  point,  we  niuit  not  nei^r, 
ledl  to  recommend,  in  cafe  Negroes 
are  hereafter  fent  in  one  and  the 
fame  Velfel,  fome  on  the  Compa- 
ny's, and  others  on  private  account, 
as  happened  in  the  Ship  Indimi, 
that  on  fuch  occalions,  the  Negroes 
fent  for  account  of  the  Company, 
or  Individuals,  may  be  dilHnguillied 
the  one  from  the  other  by  fonic 
particular  marks  or  tokens,  either 
by  a  ftripe  on  the  clothing  or 
otherwife,  in  order  to  prevent  dif- 
putes  and  differences  here,  which 
we  might  eafily  have  had  here  with 
the  Owners  of  the  Ship  huluui  it 
anv  had  fallen  fick  or  died  on  the 

*  Equal  to  $176. 


(   i89  ) 

pallagc,  lince  they  claimed  to  be 
entitled  to  the  riril  choice,  leaving 
the  rell  for  the  Company.  This 
choice  I  allb  have  allowed  them,  as 
tliere  were  no  certain  marks  to 
u;uide  us.     ■•*  '•'  ■'■'  ■'■ 

Amjlcrdam  in  New  Ncthcrhnid^  \ 
1 6//6  April,  h!'  1 66 1 .  | 

(By  the  AVrt'  NctbnLind  Indian.) 


Refoliitio?i  of  the  DircElor  and 

Council  oj  Neuo  Net  her  land. 

Friday,  id  September,  1661. 

Ix  Council.     Prefent  — 

The  Honorable  Director  General 

Petrus  Sttiyvefant, 
Hon.  Nicajius  de  Silk, 
Jo  ban  de  Decker. 

WHEREAS,   the    Yacht    New 
N ether  land  hidian  arrived  here 
yefterday  from   Curasao,  by  which 


(   ^9o  ) 

I  have  received  on  the  Conipanv's 
Account  36  out  of  40  heail  of 
Negroes  and  Negrelles,  both  youn^; 
and  old,  that  had  been  lliipped  in 
that  X'elfel,  it  is  relolved  in  ()rdcr 
to  prevent  expence  and  lols  by  death 
or  otherwife,  to  fell  them  publicly 
on  TufMllay  next  to  the  higlult 
bidder,  and  to  announce  the  fame 
immediately  every  where  by  No- 
tices. 

It  being  taken  into  confideratioii 
in  regard  to  the  above  fubjed,  what 
pay  the  above  Negroes  iliould  he 
fold  for,  it  is  by  a  majority  of  Votes 
refolved,  to  fell  them  for  Beaver 
or  Proviiions,  fuch  as  Beef,  Pork, 
Wheat  or  Peafe,  at  Beaver  price; 
for  if  they  are  to  be  fold  for  Beaver 
or  Calh  down,  or  Tobacco  at  Beaver 
price,  neither  Burgher  nor  Farmer 
can  purchafe  any,  lince  there  is  no 
Tobacco,  much  lefs  Beaver  in  cir- 


r  t'j 


(    '9'    ) 

dilation  among  the  People.  liy 
this  means,  a  few  perfons  only,  to 
whom  the  Company  is  indehted, 
would  have  an  opportunity  to 
monopolize  them  in  diminution  of 
the  deht,  and  that  at  a  fmall  price, 
becaufe,  as  already  fhited,  fuch  only 
will  be  for  their  interell,  whereby 
then,  the  Company  will  be  frullrated 
out  of  the  Beaver  or  Tobacco  down, 
and  we,  alio,  (hall  be  obliged  to 
purchafe  a  quantity  of  Provifions 
for  the  Garrifon  againll  the  coming 
Winter,  and  in  payment  thereof 
take  up  Goods  from  the  Merchants 
at  the  highefl:  price,  and  next  year 
again  lofe  thereby  the  greateft  por- 
tion of  the  Beaver.  Therefore, 
for  thefe  and  many  other  reafons  it 
has  been  thought  heft  to  fell  the 
aforefaid  Negroes  for  Beaver  or 
Provifions  at  Beaver  price. 


m 


(     '92     ) 

Direthr    Stuyvrsant    to    the 
Dire&ors  at  ylfnjlc?'cla;n. 

I'^ort  jbnjlcrdani  in  New  Nethtr-  \ 
land,  3111  ()dol)ct\  1661.        I 

Honoriihle,  6cc. 

AS  nothing  of  conrcqiience  has 
tranl'pircd  iince  the  departure 
of  the  luiitb  and  Gilded  Eagle,  h\ 
which  the  condition  of  artairs  had 
been  expkiined  at  hirge,  and  nothing 
of  any  importance  has  fince  oc- 
curred, this  Letter  is  principally 
intended  to  accompany  Invoices, 
Muller  Rolls  of  the  Garrifon,  and 
a  few  necelfary  Documents. 


Nos.  6  and  7  are  two  Lifts,  one 
of  a  lot  of  old,  and  the  other  of  a 
lot  of  young,  male  and  female  Ne- 
groes, fent  hither  by  Vice   Director 


(    '93   ) 

llrl'  ill  the  Ship  Nt'iu  Ncthcrliuid 
hiiliiin.  AiiMcxcil  thereto  is  a  return 
ct  the  coiulitioMs  ami  prices  at  which 
they  were  fuld  here. 


1  I 


Rcfolutioii  of  the  DircFlor  cvid 
Council  of  New  NetherLuuL 

Mondijy,  -jth  November^  1 66  i . 

In  Council.      Prelent-r- 

Dire(^l:or  General   Pctrus  Stuyvc- 

Ilon'^'^"  Nicajius  dc  Sillc, 
Jo  ban  dc  Decker. 

RESOLVED,  to  lell  four  more 
of  the  7  Negroes,  held  over 
\a\\  year,  to  the  highell  hidder  at 
puhlic  audtion  on  the  following 
Conditions : 

The  Buyers  lliall   he  empowered 
to   ule    the    purchafed    Negroes   as 

Aa 


(   ^94   ) 

Bond  Slaves,  alfo  to  refell  them  to 
others  either  within  or  beyond  this 
Province,  provided  that  whomloevcr 
will  remove  or  tranfport  them  be- 
yond this  Province,  fliall  pay  for 
each  Negro  a  duty  of  Two  Beavers. 

Payment  Ihall  be  made  down  at 
lateft  within  lix  weeks  from  date 
hereof  in  Wheat  or  Rye. 

The  Wheat  at  3  Gu-Mers,  and 
the  Rye  at  2-2  Gl,  the  Skepel. 

The  Negroes  Ihall  be  delivered 
to  the  Purchai'ers  at  the  time  ot 
payment  and  not  before. 

The  Purchafers  iliall  be  bound  to 
give  futficient  fccurity. 


ContraSl  for  a  Cargo  of  Slaves 
for  New  Netherland. 

HIS  day  the  Melf'^ 

Abrahiwi     Wilmerdonx     and 
'Jacob   PcrgenSj   both    Directors   of 


T 


'^•■•k. 


( 195 ) 

the  Well:  India  Company  at  the 
Chamber  here,  being  Specially  au- 
thorized thereto  by  their  Allbciates, 
on  the  one  part,  and  Hcndrick 
Roctcrs,  old  Ichepen,  Johan  'Tayfpil 
and  Anthony  Cajiclcyn,  Commillaries 
and  Directors  of  this  City's  Colonie 
in  New  Netherlands  by  their  Allo- 
ciates  thereunto  Ipecially  delegated, 
on  the  other  part,  agree  and  contract, 
that  the  abovenamed  Directors  in- 
tending to  purchale  a  parcel  of 
Slaves  at  Angola^  and  to  convey  them 
to  New  Netherlands  iliall  admit 
the  aforefaid  Commilfioners  and 
Diredors  to  participate  with  them 
in  the  colls  and  rilk  of  the  Trade  of 
the  aforefiid  Slaves,  for  one  fourth, 
in  all  refped:s  the  fame  as  the 
Company,  and  that  accordingly  the 
abovenamed  Directors  and  Com- 
niiifioners  Ihall  alio  pay  their  portion 
ill  the  moneys  which  are  advanced 


\\ 


lI'liiMIMilMl 


-i 


k.t, 


(    '96   ) 

to  the  Skipper  of  the  Gidcofi^  ami 
the  aforefaid  Dire(^tors  (of  the  VV^elt 
India  Company)  ihall  with  all  pol- 
fihle  fpeed  difpatch  the  Ship  Gideon, 
chartered  for  that  purpofe  by  their 
Honors,  according  to  the  Charter 
Party,  and  let  it  purfue  its  Voyage 
accordingly;  that  the  abovenamed 
Directors  Ihall  have  the  exclulive 
management  of  the  aforefaid  Trade 
and  raife  on  bottomry  the  moneys 
required  therefor,  in  the  manner 
ufual  with  the  Company,  and  after 
the  Voyage  is  completed,  account 
for  and  fettle  with  the  abovenamed 
Directors  and  Commilfaries  for 
every  thing ;  and  that  the  aforelaid 
Commillioners  Ihall  give  orders  that 
their  Officers,  being  notified  of  the 
arrival  of  the  aforefaid  Slaves  at  the 
Manhattmis^  ihall  repair  thither  to 
receive  the  aforelaid  fourth  of  the 
faid  Negroes   by  blind  lot,  and  give 


(    *97   ) 

receipt  therefor ;  that,  further,  the 
atorefaid  Commillioners,  as  foon  as 
the  receipt  lliall  he  produced  here, 
lliall  pay  to  the  Company  Ten 
Carolus  Guilders,  over  and  ahove 
their  iliare  as  above  in  the  Trade, 
after  dehvery  for  each  merchantable 
Slave  from  15  to  36  years,  being 
reckoned  head  for  head  as  mer- 
chantable, and  above  36  and  from 
15  to  8  years  downwards,  three  for 
two,  and  from  8  years  down,  2  for 
one,  fucklings  following  the  mother. 
All  under  exprefs  condition,  that  the 
abovenamed  Dired:ors  and  Com- 
mitrioners  muft  retain  the  aforefaid 
Slaves  in  their  Colonic  without 
allowing  them  to  be  fold  to  any 
other  Nation  outfide  the  Colonic, 
or  fuffering  them  to  be  either  di- 
reftly  or  indirectly  removed  or  fold 
elfewhere.  All  upon  the  penalty 
of  300  Florins  for  each  Slave  who 


I  1 


mtitit't^i  <tnr:t.-*M,  .1 


(  '98  ) 

fliall  be  removed,  or  llich  higher 
penalty  as  is  provided  or  may  here- 
after be  provided  in  the  Ordinances 
ah'eady  enad:ed,  or  that  (liall  here- 
after be  enadled  therefor  in  AVic 
Netbcrland. 


Dh^eSiors    at    A)nJ}e7^dcun    to 
DireElor    Siuyvrsant. 

Amjlerdam^  20th  ya?iuary^  1664. 


IN  our  hiit  which  we  enclofe,  you 
were  informed  that  we  con- 
trad:ed  with  Symo?i  GildCy  Skipper 
of  the  Ship  Gidcoii^  to  export  a 
goodly  number  of  Slaves  from  Lo- 
ango  on  the  Coaft  of  Africa,  and 
to  convey  them  by  way  of  Curacao 
to  New  Netbcrland ;  alfo  that  this 
City  is  a  partner  therein  for  one 
fourth  part,  as  may  be  more  fully 


ft 


(  199  ) 

fcen  by  the  Copies  hereunto  an- 
nexed. 

As  the  Slaves  are  intended  lolely 
to  promote  Agriculture,  which  is 
the  only  means  of  making  the 
State  prolperous,  lb  is  it  our  exprels 
order,  that  the  aforefaid  Slaves  lliall 
be  Told  there  only  to  our  Inhabitants 
on  the  exprel's  condition,  that  they 
ihall  not  be  exported  out  of  our  dif- 
tridf,  but  fpecially  retained  therein, 
to  be  employed  in  the  cultivation 
of  the  foil,  fo  that  the  great  expenfe 
which  we  have  incurred  may  not 
be  fruitlefs,  but  that  we  may,  in  due 
courfe  of  time,  reap  the  fruits  which 
we  promife  ourfelves  therefrom. 
The  aforefaid  Ship  with  about  300 
Slaves  may,  according  to  our  calcu- 
lation, arrive  yonder  in  the  month 
of  June  or  July  next. 

As  your  Honor  will  be  greatly 
relieved    by   this    fupply,    you   will 


( 


200 


) 


therefore  ufe  every  effort  that  one 
third  part  at  leaft  of  the  proceeds 
Ihall  be  forwarded  hither  in  Beaver, 
in  order  that  we  may  be  enabled  to 
pay  the  freight,  or  the  greatefl:  part 
thereof  at  fartheft,  on  the  arrival 
of  the  aforefaid  Ship  here,  which 
we  are  bound  to  do  by  contra(!:t. 
Otherwife,  we  fliall  lofe  all  ambi- 
tion to  continue  fuch  tranfmilfioii 
of  Slaves.  This  we  commend  to 
your  Honor's  fpecial  conlideration. 


DtreSlor    Stuyvesant  to    Vice 
DireEior  Beck. 

Atnjhrdam  in  New  Netherlands  ) 
7  May,  1664.  I 

jft  "f-  •;•  'i^  -i^ 

MESS«^   the   Diredors,  and  the 
Commilfioners  of  the  Colo- 
nic on  the  South  River,  have  entered 


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(    201    ) 

into  a  contra6l  with  Siniofi  Cornclijfcn 
Glide,  Skipper  of  the  Gidcoti,  to 
tranlport  hither  a  lot  of  Negroes 
for  Agricultural  purpofes.  Thefe 
Negroes  will,  we  hope,  have  ar- 
rived before  this  Letter  reaches  your 
Flonor,  or,  at  leail,  be  embarked 
after  its  receipt.  We  Ihall  therefore 
recommend  that,  being  properly 
provided,  they  may  be  difpatched 
hither  as  fpeedily  as  pollible.  If  it 
happen  that  Simon  Gildc  Ihould 
arrive  with  the  Negroes  at  the  liland 
of  Curasao  a  month  later  than  the 
Charter  Party  provides,  fay,  the 
middle  of  Augull,  the  firft  inilal- 
ment  might  reach  here  before  or 
by  the  middle  of  September  from 
Curasao,  and  the  remainder  by  the 
middle  of  Odtober.  In  that  event 
a  fair  price  might  be  realized  for 
them. 


'it 


Bb 


mimiuSmmmmimmmitim 


(    202     ) 


Conditions  and  T'erfns  on  which 
the  DireElor  General  a/id 
Council  of  New  Nethe?'la?id 
propofe  to  Jell  to  the  highe/J 
bidder  a  lot  of  Negroes  and 
Negrejjes,      29  May^  1664. 

THE  Buyers  (liall  immediately 
take  poireffion  of  their  pur- 
chafed  Negroes,  and  may  ufe  thcin 
as  Bond  Slaves,  and  alfo  fell  them 
to  others. 

But  whereas,  the  meaning  of  the 
Directors  is,  to  promote  and  advance 
the  Population  and  Agriculture  of 
this  Province  more  and  more,  the 
purchafed  Negroes  or  Negrelfes 
fliall  not  be  fold,  carried  away  v>x 
tranfported  beyond  this  Province. 
Whofo  ad:s  contrary  hereunto,  fliall 


(   203    ) 

forfeit  for  each  Negro  or  Negrefs, 
One  hundred  Guilders,  Beaver  value. 
Payment  (hall  be  made,  one  fourth 
part  down,  the  remainder  in  Sep- 
tember or  October  next,  in  good 
Beaver  at  Eight  Guilders  the  Skin, 
or  in  Merchandize,  Beaver  price,  or 
in  Provifions  fuch  as  the  Hon^'''-' 
Company  may  require,  to  be  de- 
livered here  at  the  Manhattans  at 
the  following  prices : 

Wheat  at  55  Stivers,  | 

Peafe     at  50  Stivers,  I  the  Skepel. 

Rye       at  45  Stivers,  ] 

Salted  Beef  at  4  Stivers,  1  ^.l    p       j 
Pork  at  5  Stivers,  J 


I  i 


^  f 


The  Purchafer  (hall  be  bound  to 
ive  fufficient  fecurity. 


I    I 


Il       * 


M 


(  204.  ) 

On  the  foregoing  Conditions,  the 
following  were  the  Purchafers : 

Florins. 
Jacobus  Backer^    -     I  Negro,  for  555 

I  Ncgrcfs,      305 
I  Negro,       315 


Dom'^  yohatities  Thcodorus  Polhcinliis^ 
on  Colonilts'  Account,  one  Negro 
for    ------ 

Nicolas  rerlcth^  on  Colonifts'  Account, 
I  Negrefs,  for  fl.  290 
I  Negro,  "     395 

I  Negrefs  and  Child,  360 
I  Negrefs,  260 

"Johannes  Verveelcn^         -      i    Negro, 
Paulus    LcendertJ'en    Vande    Gri/i^ 

I  Negro, 
Capt.    Tho?nas  TFillet^ 
Timotheiis  Gahr\\    - 
M""   John    Laurence^    - 
Jeroyninus  Ehh'ingh^ 
Ifaacq  Foreeji^     - 
Jacob  Leyfeler^ 
Nicolas  De  Meyer^ 
Daniel  Terneur^ 
Ifaac  Bedlo^ 


440 


1305 

445 


425 

502 
485 

345 


I  Negro, 
I  Negro, 
I  Negro, 

I  Negro,  485 

I  Negro,  545 

I  Negro,  615 

I  Negro,  460 

I  Negro,  465 

I  Negro,  430 


(    205     ) 


y deques   Couffcaa^   -      i  Negrcfs,  335 

I     ditto,      305 
I     ditto,      300 

IfiUiatn  Maerfchalck^  I  Negro,     500 

I     ditto,      425 


Govert  Loocquermam^     -      I  Nfgro, 
Eghi'rt  Alyudertlhi^    -  I  Negro, 

Adr'iacn  I'lnccnt.^  -      I  Negrels, 

Carel  van  Brugge^  -     I  Ncgrefs,  300 

I  Negro,     600 


940 


925 

562 
255 


900 


Total  Florins,  12009 


1305 

gro, 
I 

445 

gro, 

425 

groi 

502 

gro> 

485 

g>-o, 

345 

gro, 

485 

gro, 

545 

gi'o. 

615 

g»'o, 

460 

gro» 

465 

•gro, 

430 

DireBor    Stuyvesant    to    the 
Dire&ors  at   Amjlerda^n. 


* 


* 


* 


'.{J 


THIS  day  fortnight  arrived  here 
your  Honors'  Vellel,  the  Spar- 
roWy  with  Forty  head  of  Slaves,  fent 
to  us  by  Vice  Diredor  Beck  to 
procure  Provifions  and   all  forts  of 


I    i 


(    206    ) 


Timber  work,  fix  Ox  Carts  and  a 
new  Rofiiiill.  •'•         •=•         ■•• 

The  Negroes  and  Negrefies  have 
all  arrived  lately  and  in  health,  hut 
were,  on  an  average,  pretty  old,  aiul 
as  the  Skipper  alleges,  reje(5led  by 
the  Spaniards.  The  produd  of  the 
greater  part  appears  by  the  ac- 
companying account  of  the  public 
Vendue.  They  would  have  brought 
more,  had  they  not  been  fo  old. 
Five  of  the  Negro  Women,  who 
were,  in  our  opinion,  unfaleable, 
have  been  kept  back  and  remain 
unfold.  In  like  manner,  Six  Ne- 
groes alfo,  to  help  to  cut  the  required 
Timber  and  to  perform  fome  other 
necelTary  work  for  the  Honorable 
Company. 

lo  JunCy  1664. 


(    207     ) 


Dire&o?'s    at    A/nJ}erda))i     to 
DireElor  Stuyvksant. 

Aiujierdam,  24  y//«t',  1664. 

Honorable,    Prudent,  Valiant,    Be- 
loved, Faithful. 

WE  have  heretofore  advifed  you 
of  our  intention  to  let  the 
Ship  Gideon  g(^  from  Curasao  to 
the  Manhattmis  with  her  Slaves. 
Having  fince  then,  and  now  for  the 
tirfl:  time,  remarked  the  holHle  and 
treacherous  defigns  manifelled  by 
the  Englilh  towards  the  Company's 
rightful  Conquefts  on  the  Coaft  of 
yjfrica^  where  they  have  already 
m altered  Cape  Vcrd  and  taken  3  (a 
4  of  the  Company's  Ships  or  Yachts, 
we  have  come  to  a  different  deter- 
mination.    As  your  Honor  alio  will 


it 


n 


(  208  ) 

not  be  left  unmolefted  by  them,  for 
we  Linderftand  that  they  have  Uke- 
wife  fent  3  Ships  with  Men  thither 
to  the  alfiftance  of  their  Nation, 
and  as  the  aforelaid  Ship  with  Slaves 
might  hereby  be  brought  into  dif- 
ficulty, we  have  thought  proper  to 
fend  her  iirft  to  the  Sout&  River,  to 
learn  there  from  the  City's  Direftor 
how  matters  ftand  at  the  Ma?ihat- 
taiis.  On  learning  the  arrival  of 
this  Ship  there,  your  Honor  mull 
immediately  commiffion  fome  one 
to  go  thither,  to  be  prefcnt-  at  the 
allotment  of  the  Negroes,  and  to 
repair  to  the  Manhattans  with  the 
fhare,  or  ith  the  part  that  is  to  fall 
to  the  Company ;  with  this  un- 
derftanding,  however,  that  if  the 
abovenamed  Ship  had  not  brought 
thither  above  200  head,  there  Ihall 
be  left  to  the  City  at  leaft  60  head, 
as  we  land  ourfelves   under  obliga- 


(    209    ) 

tion    to    accommodate    them   with 
that  number. 
Herewith, 
Honorable,    Prudent,  Valiant,    Be- 
loved, Faithful, 
Commending  you  to  God's  merciful 
Proteflion,  we  Remain, 
Your  Good  Friends, 
The  Diredors  of  the  I  incorporated 
Weft  India  Company,  Chamber 
at  Amjlcrdam^ 

j.  bontemantel, 
David  van  Baerle. 


Cc 


I 


(    2IO    ) 

Vice  DireBor  Bf.ck  to  the 
DireSlors  and  Council  of 
Nen^c  Nether la?2d. 

Curasao   in    Fort  Amjlerdam^  \ 
the  21.  "July,  Ano  1664.       J 

Honorable,  Valiant,  Wife,  Prudent 
i.nd  liglii.  DifciccL  Gentlemen. 

Gc?itlemen, 

MY  laft  to  your  Honors  was 
dated  28  April,  by  the  Com- 
pany's Ship  Miifchy  which  I  not 
only  hope  has  arrived  in  your  parts 
long  before  your  receipt  of  this, 
but  ardently  delire  to  fee  her  return 
here  every  day. 

Since  then  a  handfome  Genoefe 
(genuees)  Ship,  named  the  Sta  Cruz, 
arrived  here  from  Cartagena,  with 
One  hundred '2iV\^  Jixty  thouj and  Y^i^cfb 
of  Eight  in  Specie,  to  be  all  inverted 


ler  return 


(    211     ) 

in  Slaves  through  the  Fadtors  re- 
liding  here  on  behalf  of  the  Genoefe 
Company,  who,  however  up  to  this 
time  have  delayed  doing  any  thing, 
by  advice  and  order  of  their  Prin- 
cipals, in  the  expedation  that  they 
will  have  concluded  a  new  Contract 
with  the  Company,  and  that  more 
Slaves  may  arrive  here,  fo  as  to 
in  veil  the  ciiinc  Capital  which  they 
have  brought  for  that  purpofe  in 
their  aforefaid  Ship,  in  Slaves  and 
to  carry  them  away  at  once. 

On  the  8th  inftant,  arrived  here  by 
way  of  Guinea,  Angola,  and  Cayenne, 
the  Ship  Gideon,  the  bearer  hereof, 
Simon  Corneli[jen  Gilde,  Skipper, 
with  over  Three  hundred  Slaves.  I 
was  in  hopes  by  means  of  thefe  and 
the  fupply  of  Slaves  already  here, 
to  have  enough  to  be  able  on  the 
Advice  and  Order  of  the  Com- 
pany, to  accommodate  the  aforefaid 


» 


(    212     ) 

Faftors  for  their  above'mentioned 
Specie,  as  then  was  their  intent ;  for 
they  faid,  in  cafe  no  feafonable  advice 
or  order  was  received  from  their 
Principals  and  the  Company,  that 
they  would  then  contrad:  with  me 
for  as  many  Slaves  as  were  here  at 
prefent,  and  might  happen  to  arrive, 
to  be  paid  for  on  delivery,  in  order 
to  difpatch  their  aforefaid  Ship, 
which  was  lying  here  at  great 
expenfe.  So  they  were  exped:ing 
that  they  could  have  availed  them- 
felves  on  this  occalion,  for  their 
Velfel,  of  the  Slaves  brought  hither 
by  the  aforefaid  Ship  Gideon,  when 
the  abovementioned  Skipper  Smon 
Cornelijcn  Glide  brought  me  fuch 
ample  Order  and  Inftrudtions  to 
the  contrary,  that  I  could  not  dare 
to  change  them,  as  your  Honors  will 
pleafe  to  obferve  by  the  annexed 
Copies.     Purfuant    to    faid    Orders 


(    213    ) 

I  am  fending  to  your  Honors  here- 
with, by  the  aforefaid  Ship  and 
Skipper  the  number  of  Slaves  to  be 
feen  in  the  accompanying  Invoice 
and  Bill  of  Lading  to  which,  for 
brevity's  fake,  I  refer. 

And  fmce  now,  in  the  lirft  place, 
no  more  Slaves  are  to  be  expected 
here,  the  aforefaid  Factors  will 
have  to  content  themfelves  with  the 
Slaves  which  have  been  previoully 
brought  hither  on  the  Company's 
account ;  and  as  many  of  the  Slaves 
brought  here  by  the  faid  Ship  Gideon 
are  infected  with  Scurvy,  I  have 
therefore  retained  the  greater  num- 
ber of  thefe  here  and  embarked 
others  in  their  place  from  among 
thofe  brought  in  previous  Ships. 
When  thofe  are  cured  of  the  Scurvy, 
they  can  be  delivered,  in  the  place 
of  the  others,  to  the  aforefaid  Fac- 


tors. 


^ 


!'{ 


(   214-   ) 


Bill  of  hading  for  T'hree  Hun- 
dred Negroes  fenl  to  the 
Manhattans. 


I 


UNDERWRITTEN  Sinio?! 
5  Cornelijfe  Gilde,  Skipper  under 
God  of  my  Ship,  named  the  Gideon, 
now  lying  in  the  Harbor  qI  Curacao, 
ready  to  fail  with  the  lirft  fair 
wind  (which  God  lliall  vouchfafe) 
for  the  Manhatans  in  New  Nether- 
land  acknowledge  to  have  received 
between  the  Decks  of  my  afore- 
faid  Ship,  the  number  of  'Three 
hundred  Slaves,  coniifting  of  One 
hundred  and  Jixty  Men  and  One 
hundred  and  forty  Women,  all  mer- 
chantable ;  which  Slaves  I  promife 
to  deliver  (if  God  grant  me  a  prof- 
perous  Voyage),  with  my  aforefaid 
Ship  at  the  faid   Manhatans  to  the 


(    215    ) 

Hon^^i^  Diredor  General  Petnis 
Stuyvejmt  or  his  Order,  on  payment 
of  my  freight  for  the  aforelaid 
Slaves,  as  agreed  upon  and  condi- 
tioned by  the  Charter  Party,  and 
for  the  performance  of  what  pre- 
cedes, I  pledge  myfelf  and  all  my 
Property  and  my  aforefaid  Ship  with 
all  its  Appnrtenances.  In.,  witnefs 
of  the  truth  I  have  fignerl  three 
Invoices,  all  of  the  fame  tenor,  the 
one  being  fulfilled,  the  others  are 
void.  Written  at  Ciira(^ao,  the  2 1 ft 
July,  Ano  1664.     (Signed) 

Symon  Cornelissen  Gilde. 


I, 


(   2.6   ) 


Dire&or   Stuyvesant   to    Vice 
Dire&or  Brck. 

Honorable,  Prudent,  Wife,  and  very 
Difcreet  Sir. 

OUR  lafl:  Letter  to  you  was  by 
the  Ship  The  White  Horjeman, 
Skipper  Hendrick  Janfen  Stuyvejd?it, 
dated  the  7th  May  laft.      ••=      =•• 

Since  then,  viz.,  on  the  24th  May, 
arrived  here  in  llitety,  God  beprail'ed, 
the  Company's  Ship  Sparrow^  Skip- 
per Jan  Petej'fen  Groot  of  Dockum, 
by  whom  I  received  your  Honor's 
Letter  of  the  28th  of  April,  to 
which  the  following  will  ferve  as 
an  anfwer. 

The  Slaves  and  Merchandize  ar- 
rived fafely  according  <-o  Invoice 
and  Bill  of  Lading.       ■•"      *       -^ 

I  have  fold  the  Negroes  that  have 
been  fent,  at  Public  auction  to  the 


(    217     ) 

higheil:  bidder,  for  Provifions,  with 
the  exception  of  »SV.v  of  the  Men, 
who  are  employed  in  the  Compa- 
ny's fervice  on  the  Works  of  the 
Fort,  and  Five  Negro  Women  who, 
on  account  of  their  advanced  Age, 
could  not  find  a  Purchafer,  except 
at  a  very  low  figure.  The  remain- 
der have  been  fold  at  prices  men- 
tioned in  the  annexed  Copy  of  the 
Conditions  of  the  Sale;  being,  in 
our  opinion,  a  tolerably  fair  price 
for  fuch  a  lot.  Had  they  been 
better,  there  is  not  a  doubt  but 
they  would  have  produced  a  much 
larger  amount,  as  may  be  inferred 
from  the  price  of  a  few  who  were 
fold  for  600  Guilders  •'■•  and  upwards. 
Thefe  Negroes  have  afforded  us 
great  relief  in  the  purchafe  of  Pro- 
vifions for  the  Garrifon.     Otherwife, 


♦$240. 


Dd 


(    2.S     ) 


1 
I' 

t 


we  (lioLild  have  been  conilrained  hy 
the  low  rtiite  of  the  Trealiiry,  cauled 
by  the  continued  troLd")les,  tirlt  with 
the  Barbarians,  and  now  at  prelent 
with  the  neighboring  Englilh,  to 
purchafe  SuppUes  by  Bills  of  Ex- 
change. 

*  :•:  :\-  :•:  :•: 

In  our  former  difpatch,  duplicate 
whereof  we  here  inclofe,  we  Hated 
among  other  things,  if  it  (hould 
come  to  pafs  that  Simon  Glide 
arrived  at  the  I  Hand  of  Curacao. 
with  Negroes  three  weeks  or  a 
month  later  than  intimated  in  the 
Charter  Party,  fay  the  middle  of 
Auguft,  therefore  the  fending  of 
the  Negroes  hither  ihould  not  be 
poftponed,  6cc.  Having  r'^'^nn- 
lidered  this,  we  have,  for  divers 
reafons,  whereof  one  is,  that  the 
Right  Honorable  the  Regents  of 
the  city  of  Amjterdam  are  interefted 


(    2  19     ) 

therein  one  fourth  part,  thought  it 
heft  and  moft  juftihahle,  not  to 
make  the  llighteft  alteration  in  the 
Charter  Party  which  the  Diredors 
have  conchided  with  S'unoji  Gildc. 
Wherefore  we  requeft  and  recom- 
mend your  Honor  to  regulate  your- 
felf  hy  the  laid  Charter  Party  in 
the  forwarding  of  the  ahovemen- 
tioned  Negroes.  But  as  we  rind 
ourfelves  burthened  here  by  an 
unufually  rtrong  Garrifon,  for  the 
fupport  of  which,  exclulive  of  the 
monthly  pay,  we  require  coniider- 
able  Proviiions,  for  the  purchafe 
whereof  we  are  not  well  provided ; 
we,  on  that  account,  have  need,  yea 
great  need  of  a  few  Slaves,  in  order 
to  truck  them  for  Proviiions.  Yet, 
for  reafons  already  given,  we  deem 
it  unjuftiliable  to  fend  for  the  laid 
Negroes,  contrary  to  the  Charter 
Party  concluded  with  Simon  Glide. 


(    2^0    ) 

Yet  requiring  ii  large  (jiuintity  of 
PrDvilions  both  tor  this  place  and 
CuracdOy  as  we  have  already  Ihited 
and  more  t'ldly  explained,  Ihoidd 
an  opportunity  oH'er  to  purchafe 
any,  tunds  would  he  ahlolutely  ne- 
cellary.  Wherefore  we  recommend 
this  Terioully  to  your  confideration  ; 
and  if  Sif/ion  Gildc  arrive  in  feafon, 
to  fend  us  as  many  Negrosn  as 
circumllances  will  permit.  If  Ne- 
groes be  fcarce,  which  however  we 
Ihould  prefer  to  have  for  the  good 
and  advancement  of  the  country, 
according  to  the  Hon^'''-'  Company's 
Order,  fome  other  effedts,  either 
Money  or  Ofnaburghs  and  other 
coarfe  Linen,  or  any  thing  elfe  that 
is  not  needed  for  the  public  fervice, 
might  be  fpared  and  bartered  for 
Provilions.  If  Negroes,  your  Honor 
will  pleafe  to  bear  in  mind  to  have 
them  fent    off  in    time    that   they 


(    221     ) 

may  probably  arrive  here  before, 
or  about  All  Saints,  and  that  they 
be  tuitably  provided  againll  the 
cold. 

30  "July,  1694. 

The  Council  of  New  N ether Icwd 
to  the  Dire&ors  at  A/nJler- 
dani. 


MEANWHILE,  God  be 
thanked,  the  Ship  .SV.  Jacob 
arrived  here  in  lat'ety  on  the  i  3th 
inftant,  from  the  South  River,  and, 
two  days  after,  the  Ship  Gideon^ 
which  failed  from  Ciirui^ao  on  the 
2 1  ft  of  July  with  300  Slaves,  160 
Men  and  140  Women,  whereof  9 
died  on  the  palTage.  This  is  a  very 
poor  lot;  indeed  fo  poor  do  we^ 
believe,  that  we   fear  the   moft   of 


( 


222 


) 


them  will  remain  on  our  hands,  or 
mufl  be  let  go  at  a  very  low  figure, 
whereof  more  in  our  next. 

Purfuant  to  the  Contradl  which 
your  Honors  made  with  the  Di- 
red:ors  of  the  City's  Colonie,  we 
have  delivered  by  lot  the  fourth 
part  of  the  abovementioned  Negro 
Men  and  Women,  into  the  hands 
of  M'"  Peter  Alrichs,  Com  miliary 
of  Indian  Cargoes,  and  Councillor 
of  the  Colonie  of  New  Amjiel^  who 
has  been  here  for  fome  time  for 
the  purpofe  of  purchaling  Oxen, 
Cows  and  Horfes,  to  the  number 
of  200  or  thereabouts.     ■••     •=•     "•• 

The  Colonie  has  received  by  lot 
for  its  fourth  part,  38  Men  and  34 
Women.  But  as  there  were  among 
thefe,  as  well  as  among  thofe  that 
fell  to  the  Company,  many  above 
the  age  of  36  years,  three  of  them 
muft  be  counted  for  two.    ■=•     •••     ••• 


(    223     ) 

This  ferves  merely  to  advife  your 
Honors  of  the  arrival  of  the  above- 
mentioned  Negroes  who.  though  a 
very  poor  lot,  as  already  ftated,  yet 
in  our  moft  deplorable  ftate,  will 
wonderfully  relieve  us,  fo  that  we 
and  your  Honors'  Servants  and 
Inhabitants,  find  ourfelves  greatly 
obliged,  and  gratefully  acknow- 
ledge your  care  in  the  fending  of 
the  faid  Negroes.     •••      =••      ■••      ==" 

Fort  Amjierdam  in  Neiv  Nether- 
lands ij  Augtiji,  1664. 

(By  Way  of  the  South  Riz'er,  per  the  Edg/c.) 


Receipt  fo?^  the  above  Negroes. 

WE  the  underfigned  Dired:or 
General  and  Council  of  New 
Netherlands  hereby  certify  and  de- 
clare that  the  bearer  hereof,  Synion 
Cornelijjen  Glide ^  Skipper,  under  GW, 


(    224    ) 

of  the  Ship  Gideon^  on  the  day  after 
his  arrival,  being  the  14th  of  Augull, 
hath  delivered  here  on  Ihore  for 
account  of  Melf'"'  the  Dired:ors  of 
the  Incorporated  Weft  India  Com- 
pany, Chamber  at  Amjlerdam,  Two 
hundred  and  ninety  head  of  Negroes, 
to  wit.  One  hundred  and  fifty  three 
Men,  and  One  hundred  and  thirty 
feven  Women,  among  whom  in  all 
were  found  by  impartial  Men  as 
feledted  according  to  the  Charter 
Party,  Eighty  nine  which  were 
judged  to  be  above  Thirty  fix  years 
old ;  of  which  delivery,  the  above- 
mentioned  Skipper,  Symo?i  CorneHJjen 
Gilde,  demanding  proper  Receipt  to 
ferve  him  agreeably  to  his  Charter 
Party,  with  the  abovementioned 
Directors,  we  have  executed  for 
him  two  of  the  fame  tenor,  one 
whereof  being  fatisiied,  the  other 
is  to  be  null.     Done  Amjierdam  in 


(    225     ) 

New    Net  her  land,    the    30    Aiiguji, 
1664. 

Permit  to  tranfport  Negroes, 

THE   Hon^c  Diredor    General 
informed    the    Council    that 
Capt.   Thomas  Wlllet  would  accept 
3  or  4  Negroes  in  payment  of  the 
Beavers  due  him  by  the  Company, 
if  he   might   tranfport   them    from 
this    place   to    fuch    other    that    he 
may  thiiik   proper.     Which   being 
taken  into  confideration,  it  was,  on 
queftion  being  put,  Refjlved  to  let 
him  have  3  or  4  Negroes ;   becaufe 
from  the  low  ftate  of  the  Treafury, 
it    is     not    well    known    how    elle 
to    fatisfy  him   for    the    Provifions 
delivered   laft    year,   amounting    to 
about  Eight  thoufand  Guilders ;  and 
Secretary   Van    Riiyvcn    is   deputed 
to  inform  faid  Willet  thereof,  and  to 

Ee 


(    226    ) 

agree  with  him  about  the  price  for 
the  beft  advantage  of  the  Company, 
and  if  poffible  to  obtain  from  him 
as  much  as  the  General  hath  lately 
had  from  him  for  two  of  his  own 
Negroes.  Done  30th  September^ 
1664. 


Vice  DireBor  Beck  to  Peter 
Stuyvesant. 

Curacao,  in  Fort  Afufierdain  the  \ 
15  Novemb\  Ano  1664.        J 


Sir^ 


■^ 


■^ 


* 


I  HAVE  remarked,  among  other 
things,  in  your  Honor's  accept- 
able Letter,  the  ferious  miftake  that 
has  been  committed  here  in  the 
fale  of  your  Slaves ;  efpecially  of 
the  little  Children,  lince  with  great 


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forethought  on  the  part  of  Madam 
Stuyvefant,  your  Honor's  fpoufe, 
they  were  prefented  at  the  haptifmal 
Font.  If  we  had  had  the  leaft 
knowledge  of  the  Fad:,  the  miftake 
would  not  have  occurred.  To  my 
grief,  a  great  error  has  been  com- 
mitted which  I  fear  is  irreparable ; 
for  fo  long  an  interval  has  elapfed, 
it  will  be  very  difficult  to  afcertain 
where  they  have  been  finally  landed. 
But  I  (liall  have  inquiries  made  by 
the  firft  Ship  that  leaves  here  for 
Carthagena  and  Porto  Bcllo,  and  if 
it  be  poflible,  endeavor  to  get  them 
back,  even  if  I  (hould  have  to  give 
two  full  grown  Slaves  and  more  for 
them. 


; 

i 

t, 

\ 

t 

i 

(; 

,j 

(  228  ) 


F/ce  DireSIor   Bkck    to   Pi'Tkr 
Stuyvrsant. 

Cura^ao^  16  Aprils  h.\\o  1665. 
iS'/r, 

A  SHIP,  named  M//}  Catarina^ 
whereof  yacob  Dirckfcn  Will- 
ree  is  Skipper,  arrived  here  on  the 
14^1^  January  lafl,  from  Ardra,  on 
the  Coall  of  Guhica,  with  Ofie  hun- 
dred and  fifty  Slaves.  She  was  fent 
in  the  Service  of  the  Company  from 
Anijierdam  to  the  Cciji/c  del  Mbia  to 
Mr.  Valckenburgb  with  fome  Sup- 
pHes  for  that  place,  and  fucceeded 
very  well,  notwithstanding  many 
Englifh  Ships  were  off  that  Coalt. 
*  *  *  -5^        * 

Since  my  laft,   I  have  fold  here 


I  Pktkr 


1665, 


Catarina^ 
fen  PVill- 
e  on  the 
Irdra,  on 
One  hiin- 
;  was  fent 
)any  from 
/  Mina  to 
)me  Sup- 
fucceeded 
ig  many 
at  Coaft. 
* 

fold  here 


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to  the  Genoefe  (gcniiecfcn)  all  the 
Slaves  which  had  come  here  on 
the  Company's  account  in  the  lad 
Ships  and  were  remaining  at  this 
place  (({)  One  hundred  and  twenty 
pieces  of  Eight.  And  hecaufe  of 
thefe  Englifli  trouhles,  and  princi- 
pally hecaufe  no  Slaves  were  expedted 
here  from  the  Coaft  of  Guinea^  the 
aforefaid  Genoefe  have  taken  their 
departure  hence  with  their  Ship 
and  the  abovementioned  purchafed 
Slaves,  on  the  23d  January  lall  for 
Carthagena.  We  (hall  learn  betimes 
whether  this  trade  llrall  be  renewed 
in  Holland  with  the  Company,  or 
whether  it  will  be  purfued  and 
continued  at  this  place  by  other 
Spaniards. 

I  have,  fince  that,  been  informed 
that  the  Principals  of  the  above- 
mentioned  Genoefe  in  Spain  have 
contracted  with  the  Royal  Company 


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o{ England ^OY  the  delivery  of  Sla>'es, 
ilich  delivery  to  be  made  at  the 
Illand  o{  yaniaica^  and  that  a  la:ge 
Si  ip  belonging  to  the  laid  Genoeie 
hii;  already  arrived  at  "yamaicay  to 
carry  away  the  Slaves,  according  to 
tf'i  '  Contra(^t  concluded  with  the 
Royal  Company.  But  inahnuch 
as  no  Slaves  had  reached  there  for 
the  Royal  Company,  they  were 
allowed  to  purchafe  as  many  Slaves 
from  the  Englilh  Planters  and  In- 
habitants as  they  were  to  receive. 
In  regard  to  this  Contrad:,  all 
Commidions  of  Privateers  and  Ships 
againll  the  Spaniards  in  thefe  Wcjl 
Indies  are  revoked,  and  they  are 
forbidden  to  iniiidt  any  damage 
on  the  Spanifh  Nation  by  land  or 
water ;  and  when  a  rich  Spanifli 
Prize  was  brought  by  the  Englifh 
Privateers  into  "Jamaica^  they  were 
obliged  to  reftore  her,  free  of  cofts 
and  charges. 


^ 


( 


2:1 


) 


I  doubt  if  this  Ef^glifli  Royal 
Company  will  be  uble  to  fulHIl 
their  Contract  'vii:h  the  Genoel'e, 
if  it  be  f  any  magnitude,  in  con- 
fequence  of  the  difhirbances  and 
troubles  caufed  by  themfelves  on 
the  Coafl  of  Guinea  and  the  great 
obftrudtion  they  will  encounter  as 
long  as  thefe  troubles  continue,  in 
their  Slave  Trade  and  in  all  their 
other  Commerce,  from  the  Priva- 
teers of  Holland  and  Zealand,  of 
which  they  have  had,  hitherto,  no 
fufpicion. 

We  fee  now  here  for  the  fecond 
time  a  Comet  with  a  long  fiery 
tail ;  it  has  been  vifible  here  for 
more  than  two  months  paft.  It  is 
alfo  vifible  in  Europe.  What  it 
portends  is  befi:  known  only  to  the 
Chief  Giver  of  all  Good,  who  will 
mercifully   turn   away   from    us    all 


(     232     ) 

well  deferved  plagues  and  punidi- 
ments,  and  make  every  thing  tend 
to  the  honor  of  his  MofI:  Holy 
Name  for  the  Good  of  His  People 
unto  Salvation. 

*  ::=  -l-  -l-  'l- 


INDEX. 


AFFIDAVIT   of  Jan  van  Gaclcn,    14;    of  Jan 
•^^   Rykartibn,    27  ;    of  Hans    MarculTcn    Stuyvc, 

35  i  of  Adriacn  Blacs,  4:;. 
Africa,  Guinea  Traders  rcfort  to,  vii;  private  Diiteh 
Traders  not  allowed  to  go  to,  xv;  Trade  to, 
opened  to  New  Netherland,  xxi;  Colonills  of  New 
Netlierland  permitted  to  bring  Negroes  from, 
103;  Slaves  to  be  taken  to  the  Well  Indies  from, 
103;  ann  to  New  Netlierland,  104,  107;  a  Ship 
fails  from  Medenblick  to,  for  Slaves,  112;  Sliip 
Eyckenboom  chartered  to  convey  Slaves  to  New 
Netherland  from,  132;  Limits  wherein  private 
Merchants  mav  trade  for  Slaves  in,  170,  173; 
Inhabitants  of  New  Netherland  allowed  to  trade 
to,  172;  hollile  Defigns  of  the  Englifli  on  the 
Dutch  Forts  in,  207. 
African  Company,    Royal,  contraft  to    fell  Slaves, 

230. 
Africans  introduced  into  New  Netherland,  xiii. 
Agriculture,    the    Slave  Trade    authorized   for    the 

Benefit  of,  xxvi,  107;  Negroes  imported  into  New 

Netherland  for  the  Promotion  of,  165,  168,  180, 

185,199. 
Alrichs,  Peter,  Slaves  dehvcred  to,  222. 

Ff 


(    23+    ) 


Amandarc,  tlic  firll  Slave  Ship  in  New  Ncthcrland, 
xvi;  came  prfjliably  from  Bia/il,  xxiv:  brings 
Nc^rces  to  New  Netlieilaiui,  99. 

Amhofuis,  Highlaiui  of",  3,  46. 

America,  Virginia  Traders  relbrt  to,  vii. 

Amllerdam  City,  owns  Shares  in  a  Slave  Siiip, 
xxvi;  contracts  for  a  Cargo  of  Shives,   19^. 

Amllerdam  Chamber  of  the  W.  ].  Co.,  informed 
of  the  Lofs  of  the  Slaver  St.  John,  and  the  Cap- 
ture of  her  Slaves,  78  ;  authorizes  the  Importa- 
tion of  Slaves  into  New  Nethcrland,  108;  direds 
the  Sci'/.urc  of  a  Ship  belonging  to  Mcdenbliek 
that  failed  to  Africa  for  Slaves,  112;  contradts  to 
llipply  Slaves,  153,  160;  orders  a  frcfl)  Supply  of 
Negroes  to  be  lent  to  New  Ncthcrland,  184; 
determined  to  encourage  the  Slave  Trade,  185; 
trades  in  Slaves,  195,  198. 

Angola,  Blacks  from,  captured,  ix,  x,  xi ;  Trade 
from  Holland  to,  xiii;  Slaves  obtained  at,  91; 
Colonills  of  New  Ncthcrland  permitted  t  )  trade 
to,  101,  102;  Slaves  purchafed  at,  195. 

d'Angola,  Paul,  xiii. 

Annebo,  Ifland  of,  6;  Provifions  for  Slavers  pur- 
chafed at,  7,  47. 

Arda,  2. 

Arms  of  Amllerdam,  Journal  of  the  Slaver,  87; 
captured  by  a  Pirate,  93. 

Arobc,  equivalent  of  the,  125. 

Aruba,  27,  49,  58. 

Aflembly  of  the  XIX,  Rcfolution  of,  105. 

Audion,  Negroes  fold  at,  xii,  168,  190,  193,  202, 
2  1  6. 


(  235  ) 


"D  ACKER,  Jacnlnis,  204. 

■'-'  Barhadocs,  a   Dutch  Slaver  lofcs  fomc  Negroes 

at,  xvi ;  a  Slave  Emporium,  xxix. 
Barley  raifed  in  New  Netherland,  xviii. 
Beans  raifed  in  New  !"ctlicrland,  xviii. 
Beaulicii,  Captain,  a  Pr'vateer,  84. 
Beaver,  I'rice  of,  203. 

Beck,  Matthias,  Vice  Dired^or  of  Curasao,  fends 
Sloops  to  take  Slaves  oft"  the  wrecked  St.  John, 
8,  14,  41,  49;  iflTies  a  Proclamation  for  the  Ar- 
rcll  of  Pirates,  6g;  Letters  of,  78,  83  ;  authorized 
to  feize  a  Medenblick  Slaver,  112;  fupplies  Span- 
iards with  Slaves,  160;  fends  Negroes  to  New 
Netherland,  181,  205;  ordered  to  fend  a  frcfli 
Supplv  of  Negroes  to  New  Netherland,  182. 
Bedlo,  Ifaac,  204. 
Beef,  ialt.  Price  of,  203. 

Bills  of  Lading  for  Negroes,  140,  176,  1 81,  2 1 4. 
Black  Eagle,  Ship,  fails  for  New  Netherland,  106. 
Blacks,  the  Well  India  Company  promife  to  fupply 

New  Netherland  with,  xiv. 
Blacs,  Adriaen,  Skipper  of  the  Slaver  St.  John,  5, 

17;  x'\fiidavit  of,  45. 
Bloody  Flux,  Slaves  fuffering  from,  4;  Surgeon  Dc 

Lanoy  dies  of  thc,,6. 
Bonaire,  1  5,  48,  50. 

Bontcmantcl,  J.,  Diredlor  of  the  Well  India  Com- 
pany, 209. 
Brafil,' Number  of  Slaves  brought  into,  viii ;  Eftcd 
of  the  Conquefl:  of,  on  the  Slave  Trade,  xi,  xii; 
private  Dutch  Veflels  not  allowed  to  trade  to,  xv; 
Trade   opened   between    New    Netherland    and. 


(  236  ) 


xix ;  Slaves  to  be  brought  from,  xx;  Colonics 
rf  New  Nctherland  permitted  to  trade  to,  loi; 
Negroes  may  be  exported  from,  io6. 

Bread,  Want  of,  on  board  the  Slaver  St.  John,  8. 

Brommcrt,  Captain,  commands  an  Englifli  Priva- 
teer, 93. 

Bruyn,  Frans,  140;  purchafcs  Slaves  for  Dircdor 
Stiiyvcfant,  144. 

/^ABO  de  Loop  dc  Confalvo,  5  ;  Slaver  procures 

^^  Wood  and  Water  at,  6,  47. 

Caerloff,  Hendrick,  builds  a  Fort  for  the  Swedes  at 

Cape  Corfe,  1 74. 
Calabari,  a  Slave  Mart,  45,  46. 
Cape  Corfe,  the  Swedes  build  a  Fort  at,  174. 
Cape  Verde,  Negroes  from,  fold  at  Cura9ao,  154; 

Slaves  received  at  Cura9ao  from,    155;  the  Eng- 

llfli  capture,  207. 
Caraccas,  Operations  of  Picterfen  the  Privateer  at, 

21,  36,  37,  56,  57  ;  Trade  between  Cura9ao  and, 

113,  115,  117,  118. 
Carthagcna,  a   Ship  arrives   for  Slaves   at  Curacao 

from,  210;  Slaves  fcnt  froin  Cura9ao  to,  229. 
Cailcleyn,  Anthony,  195. 
Caftle  Frigate,  Jan  Picterfen,  a. Dane,  commands  the 

Privateer,  18,  30,  40,  53,  Cq. 
Cayman  Iflands,  Pirates  capture  a  Dutch  ^hip  at  the, 

92. 
Charter  of  a  Ship  for  a  Voyage  to  Africa  and  New 

Netherland,  132. 
Children,  Number  of,  who  died  on  board  the  Slaver 

St.  John,  I  2. 


(  237  ) 


c;    Colonics 
ide  to,  loi  ; 

John,  8. 
iglifli    Priva- 

for  Director 


ver  procures 
e  Swedes  at 

■  174- 
ira9ao,  154; 

5;  the  Eng- 

Privatecr  at, 
Dura9ao  and, 

at  Curacao 
to,  229. 

)rniTiands  the 

1  ^'hip  at  the, 

ca  and  New 

rd  the  Slaver 


I 


Clacflcn,  Peter,  cooper.  Death  of,  4;  at  Rio  Cam- 
mcroncs,  6. 

Colding,  Situation  of,  31. 

Colonics,  Englifli,  the  Dutch  introduce  Slaves  into 
the,  vi ;  to  be  fupplied  with  Slaves  by  the  Dutch, 
184. 

Comet,  a,  vifible  at  Curasao  and  in  Europe,  231. 

Conditions  on  which  Negroes  are  to  be  fold  by 
Audion  at  New  Amilerdam,  193,  202. 

Congo,  Simon,  xiii. 

Contraft  made  with  the  Diredlors  at  Amfterdam 
for  Slaves,  153,  160;  to  iniport  Slaves  into  New 
Netherland,  Draft  of  a,  169;  for  a  Cargo  of 
Slaves  for  New  Netherland,  194. 

Copper,  brought  from  the  Spanilh  Main,  118. 

Cormantyn,  the  Englifli  build  a  Fort  at,  1  74. 

Couficau,  Jacqucb,  205. 

Couwcnhoven,  Peter,  17:5. 

Cuba,  Propofal  to  run  Negroes  into,  120;  not  fcafi- 
blc,  132. 

Cura9ao,  EfFcft  of  the  Capture  of,  on  the  Slave 
Trade,  xi,  xii  ;  a  Slave  Emporium,  xxix  ;  Slaver 
St.  John  fails  for,  8  ;  Crew  of  the  St.  John  arrive 
at,  13;  Slaves  fent  from  Africa  to,  91;  a  Ship 
fent  from  Mcdenblick  to  convey  Slaves  to,  112; 
Trade  between  the  Spanifli  Main  and,  113,  154; 
Spaniards  invited  to  trade  at,  116,  117;  the  Slave 
Trade  at,  121,  125,  126,  127;  Slaves  fent  to 
New  Netherland  from,  140;  Slaves  brought  from 
Guinea  to,  143;  weak  State  of,  157;  Negroes 
fent  to  New  Netherland  from,  177,  178;  a  Ship 
from   Carthagena    arrives    at,    for    Slaves,    210; 


(  238  ) 


Slaves    arrive    at  New    Amftcrdam    from,    221 


fcnt   to  Carlliagcna  from,  229; 
at,  231  (See  Slave  Trade). 


a  Comet  vifible 


FJAVID'S  Ifland,  21,  24,  30,  57. 

"^"^   Decker,  Johan,  dc,  189,  193. 

De    Groot,    Arent,   builds    a    Fort  at    Cormantyn, 

De  Laet,  Johannis,  his  Opinion  of  Blacks,  ix. 

Dc  Lanoy,  Surgeon   Martin,  dies,  6. 

Delaware  (See  South  River). 

Douwneman,  Robert,  a  Pirate,  captures  a  Dutch 
Ship  and  Cargo,  92. 

Dutch,  the  original  Introducers  of  Slaves  into  the 
North  American  Colonies,  vi ;  did  not  place  much 
Value  on  the  Slave  Trade  at  firft,  xi ;  Number  of 
Slaves  captured  from  the  Spaniards  by  the,  xii ; 
additional  Papers  relative  to  the  Slave  Trade 
under  the,  99 ;  the  chief  Supporters  of  the  Slave 
Trade,  104. 

Duty  on  Negroes,  171,  185,  194. 

"IT^BBINGH,  Jeronimus,  204. 

Edfal,  Samuel,  fends  a  crazy  Negro  to  Virginia 
to  be  fold,  182. 

Elephants'  Teeth  brought  from  Africa,  31,  40,  65. 

Elizabeth's  River,  Virginia,  95. 

Elmina,  i;  bad  Provifions  fupplied  at,  5;  Johan 
Valckenburgh  Diredor  at,  45  ;  Slaver  Arms  of 
Amftcrdam  fails  from,  90. 

Englifli,  the,  well  fupplied  in  America  with  Provi- 
fions, xix;  Slaves  to  be  exported  by  the  Dutch  to 


(  239  ) 


•om,    221  ; 
net   vifible 


,orman 


tyn, 


,  IX. 


5  a   Dutch 

2S  into  the 
place  much 
Number  of 
y  the,  xii; 
JVC  Trade 
f  the  Slave 


:o  Virginia 

1,  40,  65. 

5;  Johan 
r  Arms  of 

ith  Provi- 
2  Dutch  to 


the,  xxv;  have  a  Fort  at  Cormantyn,  174;  Cap- 
ture Cape  Vcrd,  207. 

Eyckcnboom,  Jan  Janfcn,  of  Hoorn,  133;  conveys 
Negroes  to  New  Nethcrland,  176. 

Eyckenboom,  Ship,  chartered  to  carry  Slaves  from 
Africa  to  New  Netherland,  132;  arrives  at  New 
Amftcrdam  with  Horfes  and  Negroes,  178. 

PAITH,  the  Ship,  192. 

■*■      Fayal,  Negroes  fent  to,  x. 

Florida,   no  private  Dutch  Vcflel  allowed  to  trade 

North  of,  XV. 
Foreert,  Ifaac,  204. 
Fofcom,  Mr.,  89;  his  Bark  arrives  at  New  Amlkr- 

dam  from  Virginia,  95. 
Francilco,  John,  xiii. 
Frederi:k,  Prince,  Declaration  of  one  of  the  Magif- 

trates  of  Amilerdam  to,  104. 
Freedoms  to  Patroons,  encourage  Agriculture  in  New 

Netherland,  xviii. 
Friar  Francis,  trades  with  the   Dutcli  at  Curasao, 

124,  125,    126. 
Froon,  Johan,  Commiflary  on  board  tlic  St.  John,  45. 

GABRIE,  Tliimotheus,  175,  204. 
Genocfe,  the,  trade  for  Slaves  at  Curasao,  210, 

211,  229. 

Gey,  Captain,  commands  an  EngliOi  Privateer,  93. 

Gideon,  Ship,  xxiv,  147;  carries  Slaves  to  Cura9ao, 
155;  fent  to  Africa  for  Slaves,  196,  198,201, 
207;  ai  rives  at  Cura9ao,  211;  arrives  at  Man- 
hattans with  300  Slaves,  221. 


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Gildc,  Symon  C,  122;  fells  Negroes  at  Curasao, 
126;  contrafts  to  convey  Slaves  from  Africa  to 
New  Ncthcrland,  198,  201;  commands  Ship 
Gideon,  147,  149;  contrads  to  convey  300 
Slaves  to  the  Manhatans,  214;  Receipt  for  them 
to,  223. 

Gilded  Eagle,  Ship,  192. 

Groot,  Jan  Pieterfcn,  Skipper  of  the  Ship  Sparrow, 
141  ;  brings  Slaves  to  the  Manhattans,  216;  (Sec 
Pieterjeri). 

Guinea,  Slaves  brought  by  the  Dutch  from,  vii,  xxiv, 
28,  35,  79;  a  Cargo  of  Negroes  arrives  in  New 
Nethcrland  from,  110,  179;  Slaves  taken  X:<i 
Cura9ao  from,  147;  Ship  Gideon  arrives  with 
Slaves  from,  211,  228. 

"LJACK,  Nicolas,  Secretary  of  Cura9ao,  27,  34, 
■*■-'■   44,  68,  162. 

Havana,  Vice  Diredlor  Beck  writes  to  the  Governor 
of,  152. 

Hcermans,  Augullinc,  142,  146. 
Hifpanic'.a,  Spanifli  Vcflcls  captured  off",  x. 
Holland,    Courfe    of  Trade    between   Africa    and, 

xiii. 
Horfcs  and  Negroes  arrive  at  New  Netherland  from 

Curasao,  178  ;  Lofs  fullained  in  New  Netherland 

by  the  Sale  of,  187. 

INFORMATION  refpcfting  the  Capture  of  the 

Slaves  on  board  the  St.  John,  14. 
Introdudion    of    Slavery    into     New    Netherland, 

xiii. 


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JACQUES  (Sec  Van  Cuelcn). 
Jaiiiiiica,  Sea  Rovers  arrive  at,  85;  Slaves  to  be 

furniflied  at,  230. 
Janfeii,    Skipper    Dirck,    carries    Negroes    to    New 

Nctlierland,   181. 
Janfen,  Skipper  Ewout,  153. 
Jews,  in   purchafing  Slaves,  Chrillians  ought  to  be 

preferred  to  unbelieving,  165. 
Journal  of  the  Slaver  St.  John,  i  ;  o{  the  Slaver  Arms 

of  Amfterdam,  %i. 

TZ'ING    Solomon,    Ship,   78;  arrives  at   Cura9ao 
"'■^  with  Slaves,  143. 
Kregier,  Martin,  175. 

T    A    Garce,    Privateer,    vifits    New    Amllerdam, 

■^  xxiii. 

La  Montagne,   Mr.,  no. 

Laurence,  John,  204. 

Leeuw,  Peter  de,  26,  34,  44,  68. 

Letters  of  Vice  Diredor  Beck  to  the  Weft  India 
Company,  78,  113,  124,  147;  to  Diredor  Stuy- 
vefant,  83;  of  the  Diredors  at  Amfterdam  to 
Diredor  Stuyvefant,  99,  101,  103,  106,  167, 
183,  198,  207. 

Leyfelcr,  Jacob,  204. 

Limits  wherein  private  Perfons  may  trade  for  Slaves 
in  Africa,  170,  173. 

Lift  of  Slaves  who  died  on  the  Paflage  from  Africa 
to  Cura9ao,  10. 

Loando,  reduced  by  the  Dutch,  xii ;  EfFed  of  the 

Gg 


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Reduftion,  xv;  a  Slave  Mart,  91;  Slaves  carried 

to   New  Netherland  from,  198. 
Loocquermans,  Govert,  175,  205. 
Lord,  Richard,  purchafes  a  Negro,  100. 
Lubbertien,  Frederick,  fells  a  Negro  to  Richard  Lord, 

100. 
Lucaffcn,   rheiinis,  26. 

]V/f  AERSCHALCK,  William,  205. 

•^^^  Man,  Edward,  Diredor  of  the  Weft  India 
Company,  132,  186. 

Manhattan,  the  firft  Slaves  brought  to,  xiii  ;  Inhabit- 
ants of,  permitted  to  bring  ^Negroes  from  Africa, 
102;  Slaves  to  be  brought  from  Africa  to,  196, 
207;  InftrutUons  regarding  Slaves  for,  208;  three 
hundred  Slaves  font  to,  214. 

Maria  ni  London,  a  Pirate,  commanded  by  Capt. 
Douwneman,  92;  burnt,  94. 

Matthias,  Hcnricus,  contracts  to  deliver  Negroes  at 
Cura9ao,  121,  122. 

Medenblick,  a  Ship  fails  to  Africa  from,  for  Slaves, 
I  I  2. 

Men,  Number  of,  who  died  on  board  the  Slaver  St, 
John,  1  2. 

Merchants  of  New  Amfterdam  remonftrate  againft 
the  Rertridions  on  the  Slave  Trade,  171. 

Meyer,  Nicolas  do,  204. 

Michielfcn  van  Hulft,  Martin,  62, 

Mi(?  Catarina,  Ship,  brings  Slaves  from  Guinea  to 
L'ura9ao,  228. 

Momma,  Guillauine,  contrads  to  fupply  Slaves,  153, 
155,  161. 


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aves  carried 


chard  Lord, 


Well   India 

ii  ;  Inhabit- 
rom  Africa, 
ica  to,  196, 
,  208;  three 

d   by   Capt. 

Negroes  at 

,  tor  Slaves, 

le  Slaver  St. 

irate  againll 

171. 

1  Guinea  to 
Slaves,  153, 


MontCcrrat,  94. 
Myndcrtfcn,  Egbert,  205. 

AJANCIMON  (Va.),  95. 

Negroes,  firll  introduced  into  the  Colonies, 
vii;  little  valued  by  the  Dutch,  ix,  x,  xi ;  Num- 
ber of,  captured  by  the  Dutch,  xii ;  fold  for  Pork 
and  Peas,  xvi  ;  brought  by  Privateers  into  New 
Amfterdam,  xxiii;  fome  lulh',  about  to  be  fent 
to  Diredor  Stuyvefant,  86;  two  killed,  93;  the 
Diredors  at  Amllerdam  promifc  to  fupply  New 
Nctherland  with  more,  99;  Bill  of  Sale  of  a,  100  ; 
New  Nctherland  permitted  to  fend  to  Africa  for, 
102,  103;  taken  as  Prizes,  may  be  exported 
from  Brazil,  105;  Duties  on,  106;  Spaniards 
invited  10  Curasao  to  purchafe,  116,  1 19;  to  be 
run  into  Cuba,  120;  Trade  at  Cura9ao  in,  121, 
122;  Price  of,  123,  125,  126,  130,  143,  145, 
146,  155,  i6i,  162,  164,  188,  204,  205,  217. 
229;  how  to  be  run  into  the  Spaniih  Main,  128 
Royalty  in  the  Spanifli  Colonies  on,  ibid, ;  Bill  of 
Lading  for,  140,  176,  181,  214;  Trade  in,  rc- 
ferved  by  the  Weil  India  Company,  143;  ordered 
to  be  fent  to  New  Nctherland,  141;;  a  fine  Lot 
of,  loft,  148;  fold  at  Cura9ao  to  Spaniards,  154; 
Chriftians  ought  to  be  preferred  to  Spaniards  and 
Jews  in  purchafing,  165;  for  New  Nctherland 
ought  to  be  ftout  Fellows,  166;  to  be  employed 
in  the  War  againft  the  Indians,  ih,;  to  be  fold  at 
public  Audion  in  New  Amfterdam,  168;  Duty 
on,  171  ;  from  Curasao  arrive  at  New  Amfter- 
dam,   177,  178,  180;  a  crazy,  exported  to  Vir- 


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giniii,  182;  a  frcfli  Supply  of,  ordered  to  New 
Nctherlaiid,  182;  Duty  on  exported,  185;  fold 
at  Audtion,  190,  193,  202,  216;  and  held  as 
Bond  Slaves,  194;  imported  from  Africa  into 
New  Netherlaiui,  201,  216;  Receipt  for,  223; 
Thomas  Willet  permitted  to  export,  225  ;  (See 
Slaves). 

New    Amrtel,    Slaves  fcnt    to,   222. 

New  Amik'l,  Galiot,  commanded  by  Auguftine 
Hccrmans,  142. 

New  Amfterdam,  Negroes  brought  to,  xiv,  xvi; 
Privateers  bring  Slaves  into,  xxii,  xxiii ;  Slaves 
brought  from  Guinea  to,  xxiv  ;  owns  Slaves,  xxvi; 
a  Veffel  from  Virginia  arrives  at,  95,  Remon- 
ftrancc  of  Merchants  of,  againll  Reltridions  on 
the  Slave  Trade,  171  ;  Horles  and  Negroes  arrive 
at,  178;  Negroes  to  be  fold  by  Audtion  at,  189, 
193,  202;  (Sec  M(inhattmi). 

New  France,  private  Dutch  VefTcls  not  allowed  to 
trade  to,  xv. 

New  Jerfey,  Slavery  firll  noted  in,  xv. 

New  Netherland,  Slavery  not  greatly  encouraged  at 
iirlt  in,  xi;  Hillory  of  the  Introdudion  of  Slavery 
into,  xiii;  private  Dutch  Veflels  not  allowed  to 
trade  to,  xv;  firll  Slave  Ship  arrives  in,  xvi  j  the 
Slave  Trade  to  be  revived  by  Means  of,  xviii ; 
Produfts  of,  xviii ;  Trade  to  Brazil  opened  to, 
xix;  Slaves  to  be  carried  from  Brazil  to,  xx; 
Trade  to  Africa  opened  to,  xxi ;  when  Slaves 
began  to  be  regularly  imported  into,  xxii ;  Well 
India  Company  refolve  that  Slaves  fliall  be  kept  in, 
XXV ;    never  engaged  in  the  African  Slave  Trade, 


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xxvi ;  Cornclis  \;in  Ticnhovcn,  Secretary  of,  loo; 
Trade  to  Brazil  and  Africa  opened  to,  loi;  per- 
mitted to  bring  Negroes  from  Africa,  102;  Cargo 
of  Slaves  to  be  taken  to,  104,  107,  loH;  and  arrives 
at,  109  ;  Slaves  exported  to  Virginia  from,  in; 
Ship  chartered  to  convey  Slaves  from  Africa  to, 
132;  Slaves  fent  from  Ciira9ao  to,  140;  what 
Sort  of  Negroes  arc  defirable  for,  166;  Draft  of 
a  Contraft  to  import  Slaves  into,  169;  Slave 
Trade  opened  to  the  Inhabitants  of,  172;  Negroes 
fent  from  Cura9ao  to,  177,  178,  181;  a  frcfli 
Supply  of  Negroes  ordered  to  be  fent  to,  184; 
Contract   for   a   Cargo  of  Slaves  for,    194,  19S. 

New  Nethcrland  Indian,  Ship,  conveys  Negroes  to 
New  Nethcrland,  181. 

New  Spain,  Trade  between  Ciira9ao  and,  159. 

Nuchteren,  Jan  Gcrritfen,   Skipper  of  the  Arms  of 
Amilerdam,  Death  of,  go. 

r^RDINANCE  impofmg  a   Duty  on  Slaves  ex- 
^^^    ported  from  New  Nethcrland,  109. 
Oftrich,  Ship,  Hides  and  Tobacco  fent  from  Cura- 
sao to  Holland  by  the,  125. 

pADRE,  a  Spanidi,  purchalbs  Negrbc;  and   Mer- 

chandize  at  Cura9ao,  174,  125,  i  r.6. 
Patacoon,  Value  of  a,  145. 

Patroons,  Blacks  promifcd   to,  xiv ;  undertake  Agri- 
culture in  New  Nethcrland,  xviii. 
Peafe,  raifed  in  New  Nethcrland,  xviii ;  Price  of,  203. 
Pergcns,  Jacob,  194. 
Permit  to  export  Negroes,  225. 


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Pcrnambuco,  ihc  Rcdiidion  of,  the  great  Stimulant 

to  the  Dutch  Shive  Trade,  xi. 
Pickled  Herring,  a  Prisatecr,  vifits  New  Nethcrland, 

84. 
Pieterlen,   Hedor,  contradls  to  fiipply  Slaves,  153, 

155..  '61. 
Pieterlen,  Jacob,  joins  the  Privateers,  43,  60,  73. 
Pietcrfen,  Jan,  a  Privateer,  ciipnires  a   Dutch  Sloop, 


15;  commands  tlie  L.alt)e  hrigate,  18;  Operations 
of,  at  Caraccas,  21  ;  feizes  Negroes  belonging  to 
the  Weft  India  Company,  24,  ?o,  53,  61  ;  Pro- 
clamation for  the  Arreft  of,  69 ;  denounced  as  a 
Pirate,  72. 

Pieterfen,  Jan,  Skipper  of  the  Ship  Sphcra  Mundi, 
conveys  Slaves  to  New  Netherland,  140,  142; 
(Sec  Groof). 

Pirate,  Proclamation  for  the  Arreft  of  Jan  Pieterfen, 
a,  69. 

Pocahontas,  vi. 

Polhemus,  Domine,  204. 

Population  of  New  Nethcrland,  the  Slave  Trade 
tends  to  increafe  the,  108. 

Pork,  Price  of,  203. 

Porto  Bcllo,  Slaves  fupplied  from  Curafao  to,  155, 
159. 

Porto  Cabclho,  1 18. 

Porto  Velo,  chief  i'lace  of  Trade  on  the  Spanifh 
Main,  128;  propofed  Trade  in  Negroes  at,  129. 

Portiigucfc,  Anthony,  xiii. 

Price  of  Negroes,  xi,  xii,  123,  125,  126,  130,  143, 
145,  146,  155,  161,  162,  164,  188,  204,  205, 
217,  224. 


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Price  of  Wheat,  Pcafc  and  Rye,  203. 

Privateer,  a,  brings  Slave;  into  New  Aniftcrdam, 
xxii;  captures  Veflels  and  Slaves  heJongiiiki;  to 
the  Dutch,  9,  15,  24,  30,  35,  51,  53;  French 
and  Knglilh  vilit  Curasao,  157;    (Sec  Pieterjcti), 

Proclamation  for  the  Capture  of  Jan  IMcterfen,  a 
Rover,  69. 

"D  AINS,  heavy,  in  Africa,  4. 

Receipt  of  a  Spanilh  Trader  for  Slaves,  160. 

Rcnionllrancc  againll  the  Reltridtions  prcicribed  to 
pri\ate  Parties  engaged  in   the  Slave  Trade,  I  7  I. 

Refolution  of  the  Allembly  of  the  XIX,  105;  of  the 
Anillcrdam  Chamber,  loH;  of  the  Dircilor  and 
Council  of  New  Netlicrland,  peimitting  Negroes 
to  be  taken  to  Virginia,  ill;  to  icll  Negroes  at 
public  Auction,  189,  193. 

Ridder,  Paulus  Heyn,  Pilot  of  the  Slaver  Arms  of 
Anillcrdam,  Affidavit  of,  89. 

Rio  Cammcroncs,  4,  46;  Peter  Clacflen  dies  at,  6. 

Rio  Reacl,  1,2;  Slaves  purchafed  at,  3,  45. 

Rocus,  Slaver  St.  John  loll  on  the  Rifts  of,  8,  13,  14. 

Roeters,  Hendrick,  Schepen  of  Amlicrdam,  195. 

Rolfc,  John,  vi. 

Rombouts,  Johan,  120. 

Roofa,  Gytbcrt,  34,  44,  68  ;  authorized  to  recover 
a  Ship  captured  by  Pirates,  and  taken  into  Ha- 
vana, 1  52. 

Rovers,  a  Vcflel  fent  in  Purfuit  of,  81  ;  arrive  at  Ja- 
maica, 85;  Vice  Dircdor  Beck  unfucceflTul  in  his 
Efforts  to  overtake  the,  148;  arrcfted  at  Havana, 
152;   (Sec  Privateer). 


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Royal  African  Company,  contraft  to  deliver  Slaves 

at  Jamaica,  230. 
Royalty  in  the  Spanifli  Colonics  on  Negroes,  128. 
Rudolphus,  Pieter,  175. 
Ryckartfcn,  Jan,  Skipper   of  the   Young    Brindled 

Cow,  22,  50,  58,  59,  61  ;  Affidavit  of,  in  regard 

to  a  Privateer  feizing  Slaves,  &c.,  belongirg  to  the 

Dutch,  27. 
Rye,  produced  in  New  Nctherland,  xviii;  Price  of, 

203. 

C!TA  Cruz,  a  Genoefc  Ship,  arrives  at  Cura9ao  for 

^  Slaves,  210. 

Sta.  Martha,  a  Spanifli  VclTcl  taken  off,  x. 

St.  Catharine,  a  Spanifli   Ship,  trades  at  Cura9ao, 

157- 
St.  Jago  de  Cuba,  the  Dutch  Trade  to,  1 5  2. 

St.  John,  Slaver,  Journal  of,   i ;  Wreck  of  the,   8, 

13,  48  J    Information  refpefting   the  Capture  of 

the  Slaves  on  board  the,  14;   her  lofs  announced 

to  the  Dircdors  at  Aniftcrdam,  147. 
Schaeff,  Hcnrick,  N.  P.,  132. 
Scharburgh,  Edward,  carries  Slaves  to  Virginia  from 

New  Nctherland,  in. 
Scurvy,  Slaves  on  the  Paffage  from  Guinea  affedled 

with,  213. 
Ships,  Englifli,  capture  a  Dutch  Slaver,  92. 
Sillc,  Nicafius  de,  no,  189,  193. 
Slaver,  St,   John,  Jo.urnal  of,  i  ;  Wreck  of,   8,  48; 

Arms  of  Amfterdam,  Journal  of,  87  ;  captured 

by  a  Pirate,  93. 
Slavery,    Hiftory    of   the    Introdudlion    into    New 


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Nctherland  of,  xiii;  in  New  Jerfcy,  xv;  Benefits 
cxpcfted  to  be  derived  from,  xx,  xxi. 
Slaves,  firil  Introduaion  into  the  American  Colonies 
of,  vi;  the  Number  of,  brought  into  Brazil  in  four 
Years,    viii  ;    Prices   of,   in    Brazil,   xi ;    the   firll 
brought  to  New  Nctherland,  xiii ;  to  be  brought 
to  New  Nctherland  from  Brazil,  xx ;  Benefit  to 
be  derived  from,  xxi ;  when  regularly  imported 
into  New  Nctherland,  xxii ;  to  be  kept  in  New 
Nedierland,  and    fupplicd    to   the  Englifli,  xxv; 
Dutch    trade  in  Africa  for,    i,   et  J'eq. ;    Num- 
ber of  on  board  St.  John,  5  ;  Lilt  o^  thofe  who 
died  on  the  PaiTage,  lo;  a,  jumps  overboard  the 
Slaver  St.  John,    1 1  ;  Information  refpedVing  the 
Capture    of  the,   on    board    the    St.   John,   14; 
Number  of,  captured  by  a  Privateer,  31,  40,  6^;  ; 
fufFer  great  Mifery,  and  die  on   the   PalTage  tor 
Want  of  Food,  47,  79;  obtained  at  Loango,  91 ; 
to  be  conveyed  to  the  Weft  Indies  from  Africa, 
103;  and  to  New  Nctherland,  104,  107:   Duty 
on  exported,  109;  imported  at  New  Amrterdam 
from  Africa,  carried  thence  without  any  Benefit 
to  the  Country,  110;  exported  from  New  Ncther- 
land to  Virginia,   1 1 1 ;  a  Ship  fails  from  Medcn- 
blick  for,  112;  brought  from  Guinea  to  Cura9ao, 
143;  fent  to  New  Nctherland,  144;   Receipt  of 
a  Spanifh  Trader  for,  160;  Draft  of  a  Contraft 
to  import  into  New  Nctherland,  169;  Inhabitants 
of  New  Nctherland  permitted  to  import,    172; 
ordered  to  be  exported  to  the  Englifli  Colonics, 
184;  Prices  of,  in   New   Nctherland,   188,   197 
(fee  'prices) ;  Contraft  for  a  Cargo  of,  to  be  dc- 

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livered  in  New  Nethcrland,  194,  198;  arrive  at 
New  Amfterdam  from  Curayao,  205,  216;  Ship 
Gideon  brings  300  from  Guinea,  211;  afFcdcd 
with  Scurvy,  213;  arrive  at  New  Amfterdam, 
221,  224;  (See  Negroes). 

Slave  Ship,  the  firft  in  New  Netherland,  xvi. 

Slave  Trade,  Courfe  of  the  Dutch,  xiii ;  lies  dor- 
mant, xvii ;  New  Netherland  never  direftly  en- 
gaged in  the  African,  xxvi ;  Horrors  of  the, 
xxviii;  additional  Papers  relative  to  the  Dutch,  99; 
the  Dutch  the  chief  Supporters  of  the,  104;  at 
Cura9ao,  121,  125,  126,  127,  129,  153,  1154, 
159,  210;  the  only  Bait  to  allure  the  Spaniards 
to  trade  with  the  Dutch,  1 5  i  ;  open  to  private 
Merchants,  167;  Limits  prefcribed  to  private 
Parties  engaged  in  the,  170,  173;  beneficial  to 
Agriculture  and  Commerce,  i  8  5  ;  to  be  encouraged, 
186;  the  Amfterdam  Diredors  engage  in,  195, 
198. 

Sorilho,  Capt.  Pedro,  i(;3. 

Soutberg,  Ship,  captures  a  Cargo  of  Slaves,  xi. 

South  River,  Slaves  purchafed  in  Africa  for  the,  200. 

Spain,  the  Dutch  Weft  India  Company  commence 
Hoftilitics  againft,  viii. 

Spaniards  invited  to  trade  at  Cura9ao,  116,  118; 
propofe  to  purchafe  Negroes  there,  122;  Slaves 
fold  at  Cura9ao  to,  143;  purchafe  Negroes  at 
Cura9ao,  153,  154;  Receipt  of,  for  Slaves,  160; 
Ceflation  of  Hoftilities  againft  the,  230. 

Spanifli  Main,  Royalty  on  Negroes  at  the,  128. 

Sparrow,  Ship,  brings  Slaves  to  New  Amfterdam, 
205,  216. 


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Spcra  Mundi,  Ship,  83  ;  conveys  Negroes  to  New 
Ncthcrland,  14.0,  142,  162. 

Steendam,  Jacob,  175. 

Stcenwyck,  Cornelius,  175. 

Stcvenfcn,  OlofF,  175. 

Stryckcr,  Jacob,  175. 

Stuyvc,  Skipper  Hans  Marcuflen,  14,  20,  23,  29, 
49;  his  Veffel  taken  by  a  Privateer,  32;  his  Affi- 
davit, 35. 

Stuyvefant,  Skipper  Hcndrick  Janfen,  216. 

Stuyvefant,  Director  Peter,  informed  of  the  Lofs  of 
the  Slaver  St.  John,  84;  Vice  Dircdtor  Beck 
promifes  him  fome  lufty  Negroes,  86;  Letters  of 
the  Amrterdam  Dircdtors  to,  99,  loi,  103,  106, 
167,  183,  198,  207  ;  Negroes  purchafed  for, 
140,  144;  acknowledges  Receipt  of  Negroes,  163; 
inilrufted  to  fell  Negroes  at  public  Audion,  168; 
three  hundred  Slaves  configned  to,  215;  fends 
Slaves  to  Cura9ao  to  be  fold,  226. 

Stuyvefant,  Mrs.,  baptized  Negro  Children  belonging 
to,  fent  to  Cura9ao  and  fold  to  Spaniards,  227. 

Swedes  build  a  Fort  at  Cape  Corfe,  174. 

Sweerts,  Jan,  &  Co.,  allowed  to  carry  a  Cargo  of 
Slaves  to  New  Netherland,  107,  108. 

T^AMANDARE,  Ship  ;  (See  Amandare). 

■*■     Tamarinds  provided  for  Slaves,  2. 
Tayfpil,  Johan,  195. 
Terneur,  Daniel,  204. 
Tobago,  Ifland  of,  7 ;  Slaver  St.  John  arrives  at,  8, 

47-  .      , 

Trade  to  the  Spanifh  Colonies  not  permitted,  1 1  J  ; 


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in  Negroes,   rcferved  to   the   Dutch  Weft   India 
Company,  143;   (See  Sl/ives), 
Troxxilla,  Pedro  Diez,  his  Receipt  for  Slaves,  160. 

T  TNITED  States,  the  Dutch  introduce  Slaves  into 
^^    the  Territory,  now  the,  vi. 

XTALCKENBURCH,  Johan,  Direftor  at  Elmina, 
^     I,  45,  64,  91,  228. 
Van  Bacrlc,  David,  209. 
Van  Brugge,  Carcl,  205. 

Van  Brugh,  Commiflary,  Slaves  purchafed  for,  144. 
Van  Cortlandt;   (See  Steven/en). 
Van  Cuelcn,  Lecndcrt  Jacques,  Afliftant  CommHTary 

on  board  the  Slaver  Arms  of  Amllcrdani,  89. 
Van  Dort,  Admiral,  Operations  of,  ix. 
Vande  Grift,  Paulus  Leendcrtfen,  175,  204. 
Vandcr  Kemp,  Dr.,  104. 
Vandcr  Veer,  Hcndriclt  Janfen,  175. 
Van  Diemen,  Clacs,  Death  of,  2. 
Van  Efs,  Balthazar,  120. 
Van  Gaelcn,  Jan,  Affidavit  of,  14;  taken  Prifoncr, 

35.  51.  55- 
Van  Hcuflcn,  Jafpcr,  i. 

Van  Ool,  Cornelis,  Price  paid  for  Negroes  by,  164. 
Van  Ruyven,  Laurence,  144,  162. 
Van   Ruyven,  Secretary,  Slaves  purchafed  for,  144. 
Van  Ticnhovcn,  Cornelis,  Secretary  of  New  Nether- 
land,  100. 
Verlcth,  Nicolas,  204. 
Vcrvcelen,  Johannes,  175,  204. 
Vincent,  Adriaen,  205. 


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tor  at  Eltnina. 


Virginia,  the  Dutch  introduce  Slaves  into,  vi,  vii; 
private  Dutch  Ships  not  allowed  to  trade  to,  xv  ; 
a  Dutch  Slaver  carried  into,  xxix,  94;  a  Veffcl 
arrives  at  New  Aniftcrdam  from,  95;  a  crazy 
Negro  fcnt  from  New  Amftcrdam  to,  182. 

"\li7'EST  India  Company,  Dutch,  ellabliflied,  vii; 
'  promifcs  to  fupply  New  Nctherland  with 
Blacks,  xiv;  Dullncfs  of  the  Slave  Trade  injurious 
to  the,  xvii;  rcfolvcs  to  fupply  the  Colonics  with 
Slaves,  xxv ;  rcfcrves  to  itfelf  the  Trade  in  Negroes, 
143;  fends  a  Cargo  of  Slaves  tr  Cura9ao,  228. 

Weil  Indies,  Dutch  Merchants  authorized  to  convey 
Slaves  to  the,  103;  Hoftilities  againft  the  Span- 
iards in  the,  ordered  to  ceafe,  230. 

Wheat,  raifed  in  New  Netherland,  xviii;  Price  of, 
203. 

Willet,  Thomas,  204;  permitted  to  export  Negroes, 
225. 

Wilmerdonx,  Abraham,  Dircdor  of  the  Weft  India 
Company,  132,  194. 

Willree,  Jacob  Dirckfcn,  Skipper  of  the  Ship  Cata- 
rina,  brings  Slaves  fron.  Guinea,  228. 

Witfcn,  C,  186. 

Wittepaert,  Dirck  Pieterfen,  fends  a  Cargo  of  Slaves 
to  New  Netherland,  107,  108. 

Wittepaert,  Ship,  xxiv;  fcnt  to  Africa  for  Slaves 
for  New  Netherland,  107,  108;  arrives  in  New 
Netherland  from  Guinea  with  Negroes,  1 10. 

Women,  Number  of,  who  died  on  board  the  Slaver 
St.  John,  12. 

Wreck  of  the  Slaver  St.  John,  8,  48. 


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yOUNG  Brindled  Cow,  the  Bark,  fent  to  favc  the 

Slaves  wrecked  at  Rocus,  22,  50,  57, 
Young  Oftrich,  a  Dutch  Vcflcl,  captured  by  a  Rover 
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ERRATA. 

P.    73,  Line  2,  for  Jan  read  Jacob. 

205,     "     1,  for  CouJJeaa,  read  Coujfeau. 
221,     '•     5,  for  1694,  read  1664. 


